Evolution of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Spine Disease: Do 1-year PROMs Reflect Longer Term Outcomes?
After surgery for cervical spondylosis with either degenerative radiculopathy or myelopathy, PROMs remained stable beyond 1 year, with minimal changes occurring thereafter. 1-year PROMs correlated with and served as a good proxy for predicting 2- and 5-year PROMs. This suggests that on a population level, 1-year PROMs are sufficient to assess longer term outcomes.
Authors
- Victor E. Staartjes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-2098)
- Erik Edström (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-1169)
- Victor Gabriel El-Hajj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9479-761X)
- Adrian Elmi‐Terander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3776-6136)
- Cecilia Kjaerbeck
Institutions
- Örebro University (SE)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Neurosurgery
- Published
- 2025-12-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1227/neu.0000000000003886
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.01