Ninety Percent of Patients Are Satisfied With Their Decision to Undergo Spine Surgery for Degenerative Conditions.

Omri MaayanPratyush ShahiRobert K MerrillAnthony PajakAmy Z LuYousi OquendoTejas SubramanianKasra AraghiOlivia C TumaMaximilian K KorsunTomoyuki AsadaNishtha SinghSumedha SinghEvan D ShehaJames E DowdellSheeraz A QureshiSravisht Iyer

Published in: Spine (2023)

Higher decisional regret was encountered in the setting of need for revision fusion, increased in-hospital complications, and worse PROMs. However, 90% of patients overall were satisfied with their decision to undergo spine surgery for degenerative conditions. Current tools for assessing patient improvement postoperatively may not adequately capture the psychosocial values and patient expectations implicated in decisional regret.

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