Impact of ambulatory setting for workers' compensation patients undergoing one-level minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion and review of the …

JW Nie, TJ Hartman, H Pawlowski, MC Prabhu… - World Neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To compare perioperative characteristics and patient-reported outcome measures
(PROMs) in workers' compensation (WC) patients undergoing minimally invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of early clinically significant improvement among lumbar fusion patients: a multivariate analysis

MR Patel, KC Jacob, H Pawlowski… - Journal of …, 2022 - journaloei.scholasticahq.com
# Background Minimum clinically important difference (MCID) achievement is a more patient-
centric metric that evaluates the perception of a significant improvement in symptoms …

Effects of the 2016 CDC opioid prescription guidelines on opioid use and worker compensation case length in patients with back pain

AM Alvarado, E Chung, H Deutsch - Acta Neurochirurgica, 2023 - Springer
Background Narcotic consumption in the workers' compensation population contributes to
prolonged case duration, worse clinical outcomes, and opioid dependence. In 2016, the …