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. 2011 Nov 12;21(6):1151–1156. doi: 10.1007/s00586-011-2065-2

Table 1.

Rates of good placement and dangerous placement of the TPS inserted by the chief surgeon

Subgroup In total P (Chi-square test)
1 2 3 4 5
Rate of good placement %
83.3 76.6 83.3 86.7 81.1 82.2 0.440
Rate of dangerous placement%
6.7 16.6 13.3 3.3 5.4 9.1 0.304

The pedicle screws inserted by the chief surgeon were divided into 5 subgroups of 30 screws in chronological order. For the rate of good placement and dangerous placement, there was no significant difference among the subgroups using the Chi-square test