COVID-19 pandemic and elective spinal surgery cancelations - what happens to the patients?

Spine J · 2021 · PMC8321964 · PMID 34339887

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did not quite reach statistical significancep=.056so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

There was a trend towards more kyphotic deformity in LR (19.0%; n=4) compared to NR (8.2%; n=4) and ER (3.2%; n=2), although this did not quite reach statistical significance (p=.056).

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did not reach statistical significancep=.057so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

While this did not reach statistical significance, there was a trend towards younger patients rescheduling surgery earlier, with an average age of 54.59 years in ER, 62.81 years in LR, and 61.18 years in NR (p=.057).

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