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Sohail K. Mirza
Researcher at Dartmouth College
Publications - 134
Citations - 13847
Sohail K. Mirza is an academic researcher from Dartmouth College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Back pain & Spinal stenosis. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 129 publications receiving 12340 citations. Previous affiliations of Sohail K. Mirza include The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice & Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center.
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Expenditures and Health Status Among Adults With Back and Neck Problems
Brook I. Martin,Richard A. Deyo,Sohail K. Mirza,Judith A. Turner,Bryan A. Comstock,William Hollingworth,Sean D. Sullivan +6 more
TL;DR: Age- and sex-adjusted self-reported measures of mental health, physical functioning, work or school limitations, and social limitations among adults with spine problems were worse in 2005 than in 1997, and spine-related expenditures increased substantially from 1997 to 2005, without evidence of corresponding improvement in self-assessed health status.
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Trends, Major Medical Complications, and Charges Associated with Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis in Older Adults
Richard A. Deyo,Sohail K. Mirza,Brook I. Martin,William Kreuter,David C. Goodman,Jeffrey G. Jarvik +5 more
TL;DR: Examining trends in use of different types of stenosis operations and the association of complications and resource use with surgical complexity found that in 2007, compared with decompression, simple fusion and complex fusion were associated with increased risk of major complications, 30-day mortality, and resourceUse.
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Back Pain Prevalence and Visit Rates : Estimates From U.S. National Surveys, 2002
TL;DR: This work summarized published data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey on the prevalence of back pain and compared it with earlier surveys, finding that prevalence generally declined with greater levels of education and increasing income.
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United States trends in lumbar fusion surgery for degenerative conditions
Richard A. Deyo,Darryl T. Gray,Darryl T. Gray,William Kreuter,Sohail K. Mirza,Brook I. Martin +5 more
TL;DR: Lumbar fusion rates rose even more rapidly in the 90s than in the 80s, and the most rapid increases followed the approval of new surgical implants and were much greater than increases in other major orthopedic procedures.
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Overtreating Chronic Back Pain: Time to Back Off?
TL;DR: There is a need for a better understanding of the basic science of pain mechanisms, more rigorous and independent trials of many treatments, a stronger regulatory stance toward approval and post-marketing surveillance of new drugs and devices for chronic pain, and a chronic disease model for managing chronic back pain.