Table 2.
Percent of patient satisfaction by patient-reported pain and function improvement at twelve months following spine surgery. Color key from gray to white indicates satisfaction from low to high, respectively. Numeric rating scale (NRS) scored zero to ten, with higher scores indicating worse pain. Oswestry disability score (ODI), range from zero to one hundred. Higher scores indicate worse disability.
| Pain Improvement (NRS score reduction from baseline) | |||||
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| Functional Improvement (ODI score reduction from baseline) |
None/Worse | Minimal | Minor | Major | Total |
| (−5 to 0) | (1) | (2 to 4) | (≥5) | ||
| None/worse (≤0) | 59% (n=58) | 48% (n=23) | 72% (n=18) | 80% (n=15) | 61% (n=114) |
| Minimal (1 to 14) | 51% (n=35) | 83% (n=23) | 74% (n=35) | 95% (n=20) | 73% (n=113) |
| Minor (15 to 29) | 88% (n=17) | 69% (n=13) | 92% (n=79) | 98% (n=50) | 92% (n=159) |
| Major (≥30) | 80% (n=5) | 83% (n=12) | 93% (n=43) | 100% (n=47) | 94% (n=107) |
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| Total | 62% (n=115) | 69% (n=71) | 87% (n=175) | 96% (n=132) | 81% (n=493) |