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William A. Abdu
Researcher at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
Publications - 57
Citations - 5705
William A. Abdu is an academic researcher from Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Oswestry Disability Index & Spinal stenosis. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 57 publications receiving 5070 citations. Previous affiliations of William A. Abdu include Dartmouth College.
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Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial
James Neil Weinstein,Tor D. Tosteson,Jon D. Lurie,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Brett Hanscom,Jonathan Skinner,William A. Abdu,Alan S. Hilibrand,Scott D. Boden,Richard A. Deyo +9 more
TL;DR: Patients in both the surgery and the nonoperative treatment groups improved substantially over a 2-year period, and conclusions about the superiority or equivalence of the treatments are not warranted based on the intent-to-treat analysis.
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Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
James Neil Weinstein,Jon D. Lurie,Tor D. Tosteson,Brett Hanscom,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Emily A. Blood,Nancy J. O. Birkmeyer,Alan S. Hilibrand,Harry N. Herkowitz,Frank P. Cammisa,Todd J. Albert,Sanford E. Emery,Lawrence G. Lenke,William A. Abdu,Michael Longley,Thomas J. Errico,Serena S. Hu +16 more
TL;DR: In nonrandomized as-treated comparisons with careful control for potentially confounding baseline factors, patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis treated surgically showed substantially greater improvement in pain and function during a period of 2 years than patients treated nonsurgically.
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Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: four-year results for the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).
James Neil Weinstein,Jon D. Lurie,Tor D. Tosteson,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Emily A. Blood,William A. Abdu,Harry N. Herkowitz,Alan S. Hilibrand,Todd J. Albert,Jeffrey S. Fischgrund +9 more
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that patients who underwent surgery for lumbar disc herniation achieved greater improvement than nonoperatively treated patients; there was little to no degradation of outcomes in either group (operative and nonoperative) from 4 to 8 years.
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Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation
James Neil Weinstein,Jon D. Lurie,Tor D. Tosteson,Anna N. A. Tosteson,Emily A. Blood,William A. Abdu,Harry N. Herkowitz,Alan S. Hilibrand,Todd J. Albert,Jeffrey S. Fischgrund +9 more
TL;DR: Patients who underwent surgery for a lumbar disc herniation achieved greater improvement than nonoperatively treated patients in all primary and secondary outcomes except work status at 4 years.
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Intraoperative ketamine reduces perioperative opiate consumption in opiate-dependent patients with chronic back pain undergoing back surgery.
Randy W. Loftus,Mark P. Yeager,Jeffrey A. Clark,Jeremiah R. Brown,William A. Abdu,Dilip K. Sengupta,Michael L. Beach +6 more
TL;DR: Intraoperative ketamine reduces opiate consumption in the 48-h postoperatively period in opiate-dependent patients with chronic pain and may also reduce opioid consumption and pain intensity throughout the postoperative period in this patient population.