| Literature DB >> 6225868 |
E M Oostdam, H J Duivenvoorden.
Abstract
Patients who were to undergo surgical intervention for low back pain were investigated preoperatively. The effect of surgical intervention was determined after 6 months. The judgement of the neurosurgeon and of the patients themselves were used to assign patients to three outcome categories: satisfactory, moderate and unsatisfactory. Differences in several psychological and biological factors were found between the three categories. On the basis of preoperatively assembled data on psychological and other variables it is possible to predict the outcome of surgical intervention in 80% of the patients.Entities:
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Year: 1983 PMID： 6225868 DOI： 10.1016/0022-3999(83)90049-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Psychosom Res ISSN： 0022-3999 Impact factor: 3.006