According to the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire developers, a global
measure of health-related quality of life such as the “SF-36 Total/Global/Overall Score” …

Multimodal approaches to pain management have arisen with the goal of improving
postoperative pain and reducing opioid analgesic use. We performed a comprehensive …

Objective To assess whether percutaneous transforaminal endoscopic discectomy (PTED) is
non-inferior to conventional open microdiscectomy in reduction of leg pain caused by …

Abstract Background The EQ-5D is one of the most frequently used, generic, preference-
based instruments for measuring the health utilities of patients in economic evaluations. It is …

Spinal procedures are generally associated with intense pain in the postoperative period,
especially for the initial few days. Adequate pain management in this period has been seen …

The ultimate goals of intervention for spinal pathology are to improve the patient's quality of
life, restore function, and relieve pain. Traditional clinician‐based assessments typically fall …

Background: Various multimodal analgesic approaches have been proposed for spine
surgery. The authors evaluated the effect of using a combination of four nonopioid …

Background Many intervertebral disc diseases cause low back pain (LBP). Proinflammatory
cytokines and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) participate in disc pathology. In this study …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Clinimetric properties of the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) in patients
with nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) are largely unknown. PURPOSE: To study …

Objective To assess the evidence on the validity and responsiveness of five commonly used
preference-based instruments, the EQ-5D, SF-6D, HUI3, 15D and AQoL, by undertaking a …