Lumbar Fusion Compared With Conservative Treatment in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Meta-analysis
CompletedNCT01780194
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
* To determine the effect size of lumbar fusion measured by Oswestry Disability Index and compared with conservative treatment in patients with chronic low back pain. * Meta-analysis using fixed effect model synthesis method. * Included studies were retrieved from Medline and Cochrane CENTRAL databases since 1990.
Study details
- Conditions
- Comparison Between Effectiveness of Lumbar Fusion and Conservative Treatment
- Sponsor
- Turku University Hospital
- Start date
- 2012-12
- Primary completion
- 2013-02
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: * controlled randomized or non-randomized studies Exclusion Criteria: * not specified
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01780194