Long-term Outcomes of Operatively and Non-operatively Treated Spina Bifida Scoliosis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes in Spina Bifida Cystica adults, treated non-operatively or operatively for scoliosis during childhood. Methods Patients with SBC scoliosis (minimum Cobb angle >50 degrees) treated at the Hospital for Sick Children or the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (1991-2007 inclusive) were recruited. In addition to clinical and radiological assessments, health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes included the: a) Spina Bifida Spine Questionnaire (SBSQ) and b) Medical Outcomes Study-36 Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). Results The operative and non-operative patients were statistically similar at baseline on the following variables: a) age, b) sex, c) living situation, d) ambulation, and e) neurological motor level. At an average follow-up of 14.1+/-4.3 years, groups were statistically similar with respect to: a) SF-36 and b) SBSQ scores. Conclusion Spinal fusion in SBC scoliosis corrected coronal deformity and stopped progression, but had no overall effect on HRQOL.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".