Articles: cations.
-
To provide recommended practice guidelines for assessing single operative performances and for combining results of operative performance assessments into estimates of overall operative performance ability. ⋯ The practice guidelines organize available information to be immediately useful to program directors, to support surgical training, and to provide a conceptual framework upon which to build as the base of pertinent knowledge expands through future research and development efforts.
-
To identify the prognostic factors associated with patient satisfaction after double-door laminoplasty for cervical compression myelopathy due to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL). ⋯ Patient satisfaction after laminoplasty was insufficient in patients with a hill-shaped ossification. The patients with OPLL who were able to recognize a difference in their clinical physical function, especially lower extremity function, were satisfied after laminoplasty.