Prognostic function to estimate the probability of meaningful clinical improvement after surgery - Results of a prospective multicenter observational cohort study on patients with lumbar spinal stenosis

• Ulrike Held ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Held, Jakob M. Burgstaller

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ulrike.Held@uzh.ch

  Affiliations Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3105-5840

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• Jakob M. Burgstaller ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrike Held, Jakob M. Burgstaller

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Maria M. Wertli,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Division of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6347-0198

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• Giuseppe Pichierri,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Sebastian Winklhofer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Florian Brunner,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rheumatology, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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• François Porchet,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery, Spine Center, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Mazda Farshad,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Spine Division, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Johann Steurer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Horten Centre for Patient Oriented Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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