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Patient phenotypes associated with outcome following surgery for mild degenerative cervical myelopathy: a principal component regression analysis.
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society - 1 Dec 2018
Badhiwala Jetan H, Witiw Christopher D, Nassiri Farshad, Jaja Blessing N R, Akbar Muhammad A, Mansouri Alireza, Merali Zamir, Ibrahim George M, Wilson Jefferson R, Fehlings Michael G
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BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Predictors of outcome after surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) have been determined previously through hypothesis-driven multivariate statistical models that rely on a priori knowledge of potential confounders, exclude potentially important variables because of restrictions in model building, cannot include highly collinear variables in the same model, and ignore intrinsic...
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