Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 210-215 , December 2009

A Practical Introduction to Biostatistics in the Spine Literature

  • Emily A. Blood, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Emily A. Blood, PhD, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
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  • Tor D. Tosteson, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH

References 

  1. Glassman SD, Copay AG, Berven SH, et al. Defining substantial clinical benefit following lumbar spine arthrodesis. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008;90:1839–1847
  2. Fitzmaurice G, Laird N, Ware J. Applied Longitudinal Analysis. New Jersey, NJ: Wiley; 2004;
  3. Weinstein JN, Lurie JD, Tosteson TD, et al. Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation (The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort). JAMA. 2006;296:2451–2459
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PII: S1040-7383(09)00067-7

doi: 10.1053/j.semss.2009.08.004

Seminars in Spine Surgery
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 210-215 , December 2009

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