Predictors of Decompressive Laminectomy Outcomes
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Official title
Toward Optimizing Decompressive Laminectomy Outcomes: Looking Outside the Spine
Brief summary
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Decompressive laminectomy (DL) is the most common type of back surgery performed in older adults; DL treats lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), a degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal causes pain and trouble walking. An estimated one in three people who undergo DL do not get well and often undergo repeated surgery.1,3-6 Some studies indicate that conditions outside of the spine (e.g., depression, hip arthritis) cause people who undergo DL to do poorly,27,30-36 but no one has comprehensively examined these conditions or the impact of treating them on DL outcomes. Thus LSS treatment continues to focus on the spine alone.61 The aim of this study is to identify conditions other than LSS that place Veterans at risk of poor DL outcomes so that future comparative effectiveness studies can be designed that examine the impact of a more comprehensive approach to treatment. Investigators believe that a patient-centered rather than a disease-centered approach will lead to superior outcomes, less suffering, and more appropriate use of health care resources.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02215551
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 239 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Not listed
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 50 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 1, 2014 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jul 1, 2022 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jan 10, 2023 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Jan 12, 2023
2014 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 7
- U.S. states
- 7
- U.S. cities
- 7
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO | Denver | Colorado | 80220 | — |
| Atlanta VA Medical and Rehab Center, Decatur, GA | Decatur | Georgia | 30033 | — |
| VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI | Ann Arbor | Michigan | 48105 | — |
| Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN | Minneapolis | Minnesota | 55417 | — |
| VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15240 | — |
| South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX | San Antonio | Texas | 78229 | — |
| Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center, Richmond, VA | Richmond | Virginia | 23249 | — |
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