Single item self-rated general health: SF-36 based observations from 16,910 spine surgery procedures.

Anders JoelsonFredrik StrömqvistFreyr Gauti SigmundssonJan Karlsson

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2021)

Surgery for disc herniation or spinal stenosis improve patients' perception of general health 1 year after surgery. The improvement in general health after year 1 is limited. The SF-36 item 2 is a responsive measure of self-rated general health that may be used for dichotomization of SF-36 and EQ VAS data when evaluating surgical outcome in spine surgery.

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