A Controlled Single-Centre Pilot Study to Evaluate the Effect of Prophylactic Surgery in Asymptomatic Degenerative Cervical Cord Compression.

Global Spine J · 2025 · PMC11909656 · PMID 40084411

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close to significanceP = 0.054so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

In contrast, the rate of progression in the nonsurgical group (13.2% and 17.1% in the non-matched and matched nonsurgical groups, respectively) was comparable to rates seen in our previous observational studies 20 , 22 The difference in the proportion of patients with progression to DCM was close to significance ( P = 0.054) compared to our non-matched non-surgical group.

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The effect of this bias may explain why the difference did not reach statistical significance when using the non-matched non-surgical group.

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