The use of the percentage change in Oswestry Disability Index score as an outcome measure in lumbar spinal surgery.

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Published in Spine (Phila Pa 1976) on October 01, 1994

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D G Little1, D MacDonald

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1: Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia.

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