Spine registries generate patient benefit in the century of big data: Author response to: Big data analysis reveals the truth of lumbar fusion: gender differences

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
² Department of Rheumatology, Stadtspital Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Clinical Sciences and Orthopaedics, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

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Yohan Robinson et al. Spine J. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;17(5):755-756.

doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2016.12.100.

¹ Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
² Department of Rheumatology, Stadtspital Triemli, Zürich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Clinical Sciences and Orthopaedics, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

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Women do not fare worse than men after lumbar fusion surgery: Two-year follow-up results from 4,780 prospectively collected patients in the Swedish National Spine Register with lumbar degenerative disc disease and chronic low back pain.
Triebel J, Snellman G, Sandén B, Strömqvist F, Robinson Y. Triebel J, et al. Spine J. 2017 May;17(5):656-662. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2016.11.001. Epub 2016 Nov 11. Spine J. 2017. PMID: 27845232
Big data analysis reveals the truth of lumbar fusion: gender differences.
Zhang J, Wang JS, Du W, Wang XH. Zhang J, et al. Spine J. 2017 May;17(5):754-755. doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2016.12.101. Spine J. 2017. PMID: 28431681 No abstract available.