Table 5.

Patient satisfaction 6-months after surgery correlated with selected preoperative variables and other measures of surgical outcome at 6 months.

	Patient satisfaction
Sex	-0.19 [-0.85, 0.46]
Age	-0.031 [-0.07, 0.00]
Previous symptom duration	0.00014 [-0.01, 0.01]
Delta radiculopathy	0.33*** [0.24, 0.42]
Delta neck pain	0.22*** [0.12, 0.31]
Delta headache	0.20** [0.08, 0.31]
Observations

(Linear univariate regression analysis).

95% confidence intervals are shown in brackets

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001