• Gustavo C Machado, Chris G Maher, Paulo H Ferreira, Ian A Harris, Richard A Deyo, Damien McKay, Qiang Li, and Manuela L Ferreira.
• *School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia †Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia ‡South Western Sydney Clinical School, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia §Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR ¶Department of Rheumatology, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia ||Children's Hospital Institute of Sports Medicine, Sydney Children's Hospital Network, Sydney, NSW, Australia **The George Institute for Global Health & Institute of Bone and Joint Research, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• Spine. 2017 Nov 15; 42 (22): 1737-1743.

AbstractMINI: Trends in lumbar spinal stenosis surgery are largely unknown outside of the United States. This population-based health record linkage study revealed that complex fusion surgery had a four-fold increase from 2003-2013 in Australia. This surgical procedure increased the risk of complications and resource use compared with decompression surgery alone.

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