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The effect of smoking on achieving meaningful clinical outcomes 1-year after lumbar tubular microdecompression: a matched-pair cohort analysis

The Spine Journal Mar 28, 2021

Beck EC, Gowd AK, White JC, et al. - A nested case-control study was conducted to compare variations in 1-year functional outcomes and rates of achieving meaningful clinically important differences between current smokers and non-smokers who had undergone lumbar tubular microdecompression for lumbar spinal stenosis. Between January 2014 through August 2019, researchers recruited a total of 183 patients who had undergone single-level lumbar tubular microdecompression by a single surgeon. They recorded preoperative and postoperative patient-reported outcomes using the questionnaires EQ-5D, Oswestry Disability Index, and the visual analog scale for back pain and leg pain. They further applied meaningful clinically important differences.

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