Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01780194
Lumbar Fusion Compared With Conservative Treatment in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Meta-analysis
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 666 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Turku University Hospital · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
* 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.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-02-01
- First posted
- 2013-01-30
- Last updated
- 2013-11-28
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01780194. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.