Spine
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Prospective cohort study of patients registered for elective surgical lumbar discectomy (ESLD) between November 1999 and December 2003 at a major tertiary care center in Vancouver. ⋯ These results provide evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom, compensation status was not associated with longer waits for ESLD. While patients receiving compensation have elsewhere been observed to have worse outcomes after discectomy, our results suggest this is unlikely to be due to delays imposed by queuing.
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Repeated measures study design. ⋯ A meaningful change in P(n) was defined as 0.14.