The authors identified patients with an increase in their Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) score after lumbar spine fusion to evaluate whether this is a plausible definition of deterioration and to determine whether any common patient characteristics exist.A total of 1054 patients who underwent lumbar spinal fusion and had 2-year follow-up data, including the Short Form 36, the ODI, and numeric ...

STUDY DESIGN Translation, revision, back-translation, and 3-way validity were performed. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to translate a version of the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) into Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate its reliability. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Reports in the literature have identified a need for internationally standardized and reliable measurements to analyz...

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been widely used to visualize peripheral nerves, but the microstructure of compressed nerve roots can be assessed using DTI. However, there are no data regarding the association among microstructural changes evaluated using DTI, the symptoms assessed using the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and the duration of symptoms after surgery in patients with lumbar di...

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Study Design Retrospective reliability and validity study. Objective To validate a recently translated Russian language version of the Oswestry Disability Index (R-ODI) using standardized methods detailed from previous validations in other languages. Methods We included all subjects who were seen in our spine surgery clinic, over the age of 18, and fluent in the Russian language. R-ODI was tran...

PURPOSE We describe the influence of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with standard mode and rapid cycling mode on sleep related breathing in two patients with epilepsy. METHODS Two VNS treated patients underwent digital video-polysomnography for three nights (night 1: rapid cycling mode; night 2: standard mode; night 3: off mode). RESULTS In patient 1, on off mode, apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) ...

The upsurge of the outward direct investment (ODI) made by the Chinese firms in recent years is one of the main concerns among academic researchers and policy consultants targeting emerging market economies. In this paper, the focus for analysis is the internationalization and ODI initiated by Chinese private-owned enterprises (POEs). Starting with a check of key factors that shape the general ...

AIM The aim of this study was to interpret and validate a French version of the Oswestry disability index (ODI), using a cross-cultural validation method. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was assessed in order to ensure the psychometric characteristics. METHOD The cross-cultural validation was carried out according to Beaton's methodology. The study was conducted with 41 pati...

This document discusses verification and debug of high-speed I/O using the on-die instrumentation (ODI) features of the Altera 28-nm Stratix® V device. In line with Moore's law, I/O technology trends continue to double in speed and data rates every two to three years. As the speed and data rates of I/Os increase, new verification and test challenges emerge. This white paper describes the challe...

Testing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for the presence of galactomannan (GM) antigen may help in diagnosing cerebral aspergillosis (CA). However, the use of the CSF GM test as a diagnostic test has been little studied. We evaluated its diagnostic performance by comparing the CSF GM optical density indexes (ODI) at different cutoffs in patients with probable and proven CA to those in patients withou...