March 15, 2024NeurosurgeryOpen Access

340 Effect of Worker's Compensation Status on Pain, Disability, Quality of Life, and Return to Work After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A One-Year Propensity-Matched Analysis

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UHUmmey HaniStanford Medicine SMSteve Hubert Monk DPDeborah PfortmillerCarolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates

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Propensity-matched analysis reveals worse pain, disability, and delayed return to work in workers' compensation patients after lumbar spine surgery, highlighting targets for preoperative care.

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Workers compensation recipients experience significantly greater residual disability and pain alongside delayed return to work following lumbar spinal fusion or decompression.
Across 29,652 registry patients, compensation status predicted lower quality-adjusted life years and persistent low back pain at one year following surgery (p < 0.001).
Propensity matching of National Quality Outcomes Database records highlights the value of identifying negative recovery influences to optimize preoperative care for laminectomy cohorts.

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Hani et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e73dd3b6db6435876b7986 https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000002809_340

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Propensity-matched analysis reveals worse pain, disability, and delayed return to work in workers' compensation patients after lumbar spine surgery, highlighting targets for preoperative care.

340 Effect of Worker's Compensation Status on Pain, Disability, Quality of Life, and Return to Work After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A One-Year Propensity-Matched Analysis

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340 Effect of Worker's Compensation Status on Pain, Disability, Quality of Life, and Return to Work After Lumbar Spine Surgery: A One-Year Propensity-Matched Analysis

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