Effects of preoperative obesity and psychiatric comorbidities on minimum clinically important differences for lumbar fusion in grade 1 degenerative spondylolisthesis: analysis from the prospective Quality Outcomes Database registry.

CONCLUSIONS: MCID thresholds were similar for ODI, EQ-5D, NRS-BP, and NRS-LP in patients with and without preoperative diagnoses of anxiety or depression and obesity undergoing spinal fusion for grade 1 degenerative spondylolisthesis. Preoperative clinical and shared decision-making may be improved by understanding that preoperative medical comorbidities may not affect the way patients experience and assess important clinical changes postoperatively.
PMID: 32707556 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery.Spine - July 23, 2020 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Laratta J, Carreon LY, Buchholz AL, Yew AY, Bisson EF, Mummaneni PV, Glassman SD Tags: J Neurosurg Spine Source Type: research