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Marcia A. Ciol
Researcher at University of Washington
Publications - 182
Citations - 19781
Marcia A. Ciol is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Health care. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 168 publications receiving 18187 citations. Previous affiliations of Marcia A. Ciol include Boston Children's Hospital & Veterans Health Administration.
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Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases
TL;DR: It is concluded that the adapted comorbidity index will be useful in studies of disease outcome and resource use employing administrative databases.
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Physician views about treating low back pain. The results of a national survey.
TL;DR: A lack of consensus among physicians about treatment efficacy for patients with low back pain could be attributable to the absence of clear evidencebsed clinical guidelines, ignorance or rejection of existing scientific evidence, excessive commitment to a particular mode of therapy, or a tendency to discount the efficacy of competing treatments.
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Morbidity and mortality in association with operations on the lumbar spine. The influence of age, diagnosis, and procedure.
TL;DR: Complications, length of hospitalization, and charges were higher for patients who had had a spinal arthrodesis than for those who had not, and operations for conditions other than a herniated disc were associated with more complications and greater use of resources than were operations for removal of a hernia.
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Patient Outcomes After Lumbar Spinal Fusions
Judith A. Turner,Mary Ersek,Larry D. Herron,Jodie K. Haselkorn,Jodie K. Haselkorn,Daniel L. Kent,Daniel L. Kent,Marcia A. Ciol,Richard A. Deyo +8 more
TL;DR: Clinical outcomes did not differ by diagnosis or fusion technique, but were worse in studies with a greater number of previously operated patients, and complications of fusions are common.
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An Assessment of Surgery for Spinal Stenosis: Time Trends, Geographic Variations, Complications, and Reoperations
TL;DR: To study temporal trends and geographic variations in the use of surgery for spinal stenosis, estimate short‐term morbidity and mortality of the procedure, and examine the likelihood of repeat back surgery after surgical repair.