Predictors of Bad and Good Outcome of Lumbar Spine Surgery

An Inventory for Measuring Depression

1961 • 36,954 citations

Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire

2006 • 3,725 citations

The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: Relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment

1983 • 2,287 citations

Lumbar Disc Herniation

1983 • 1,148 citations

Chronic pain and depression: Does the evidence support a relationship?

1985 • 743 citations

Development of a questionnaire for the assessment of active and passive coping strategies in chronic pain patients

1987 • 624 citations

Morbidity and mortality in association with operations on the lumbar spine. The influence of age, diagnosis, and procedure.

1992 • 580 citations

Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles for Medical Journals

1988 • 392 citations

Risk Factors of Chronicity in Lumbar Disc Patients

1994 • 291 citations

Anterior Interbody Lumbar Spine Fusion

1972 • 285 citations

Outcome Analysis in 654 Surgically Treated Lumbar Disc Herniations

1992 • 234 citations

The Outcome of Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation

1988 • 231 citations

Clinical Aspects of Depression in Chronic Pain Patients

1991 • 220 citations

Predictors of Bad and Good Outcomes of Lumbar Disc Surgery

1995 • 185 citations

Use of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM) to Identify Hospitalizations for Mechanical Low Back Problems in Administrative Databases

1992 • 179 citations

The Outcome of Surgery for Lumbar Disc Herniation

1988 • 169 citations

A Prospective Investigation into the Orthopaedic and Psychologic Predictors of Outcome of First Lumbar Surgery Following Industrial Injury

1984 • 96 citations

A Concept of Illness Tested as an Improved Basis for Surgical Decisions in Low-Back Disorders

1986 • 84 citations

The MMPI as a Predictor of Outcome in Low-Back Surgery

1979 • 68 citations

Results of lumbar discectomy: a study using 15 different evaluation methods

1992 • 68 citations

Clinical Factors Predicting Outcome After Surgery for Herniated Lumbar Disc

1990 • 68 citations

Depression in chronic low back pain patients: Diagnostic efficiency of three self‐report questionnaires

1987 • 63 citations

The Differential Utility of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

1986 • 57 citations

The effect of coping strategies on the relief of pain following surgical intervention for lower back pain.

1986 • 54 citations

The Functional Assessment Screening Questionnaire: application for evaluating pain-related disability.

1989 • 51 citations

Use of the MMPI and MCMI in predicting outcome of lumbar laminectomy

1988 • 50 citations

A prospective study of the importance of psychological and social factors for the outcome after surgery in patients with slipped lumbar disk operated upon for the first time

1987 • 45 citations

Predictors of outcome in back surgery candidates

1988 • 40 citations

Predictability of the result of surgical intervention in patients with low back pain

1983 • 34 citations

Psychological vulnerability as a predictor for short-term outcome in lumbar spine surgery

1990 • 34 citations

Chronifizierende Faktoren bei Patienten mit Schmerzen durch einen lumbalen Bandscheibenvorfall

1990 • 30 citations

Health beliefs and rehabilitation after lumbar disc surgery

1984 • 27 citations

Utility of the MMPI pain assessment index in predicting outcome after lumbar surgery

1986 • 22 citations

Prediction of Neurosurgical Results by Psychological Evaluation

1979 • 16 citations

Prognose des Erfolges von Operationen an der Bandscheibe

1991 • 11 citations

[Course of conservatively treatment herniation of the lumbar disc. Radicular deficits and computed tomography findings.].

1988 • 9 citations

[Radicular evoked potential. Peroperative recording in lumbar disk hernias].

1988 • 4 citations

[Results of the psychologic evaluation of herniated disk patients. Personality structure and life status in relation to course].

1985 • 2 citations