Lumbar Fusion Compared With Conservative Treatment in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Meta-analysis

Turku University Hospital (TYKS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Comparison Between Effectiveness of Lumbar Fusion and Conservative Treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01780194

FUSION_META_TYH_2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

• To determine the effect size of lumbar fusion measured by Oswestry Disability Index and compared with conservative treatment in patients with chronic low back pain.
• Meta-analysis using fixed effect model synthesis method.
• Included studies were retrieved from Medline and Cochrane CENTRAL databases since 1990.

Enrollment: 666 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• controlled randomized or non-randomized studies

Exclusion criteria

• not specified

Trial design

666 participants in 2 patient groups

Lumbar fusion group

Conservative treatment group