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Table 5 Patient satisfaction 6-months after surgery correlated with selected preoperative variables and other measures of surgical outcome at 6 months.

From: Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion in patients with cervical disc degeneration: a prospective outcome study of 258 patients (181 fused with autologous bone graft and 77 fused with a PEEK cage)

 

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

 
  1. (Linear univariate regression analysis).
  2. 95% confidence intervals are shown in brackets
  3. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001
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