Spine
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Spine
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A large-scale retrospective case-control study. ⋯ 4.
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Retrospective cohort study. ⋯ 3.
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Retrospective review of a single institution cohort. ⋯ Our study demonstrated that the majority of patients achieved MCID following elective one-level lumbar spine fusion at long-term follow-up, although less than half achieved this clinical benchmark for each PROMIS metric by six months. We also found that preoperative impairment was not associated with when patients would achieve MCID. Further prospective investigations are warranted to characterize the trajectory of clinical improvement and identify the risk factors associated with poor outcomes more accurately.