Multiple Patient Reported Allergies are Associated with Worse Outcomes following Lumbar Spine Surgery

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Recent studies have shown that multiple self-reported allergies independently predict worse outcomes following total joint arthroplasty. This is consistent with prior studies in spinal surgery suggesting that mental health measures such as SF-36 Mental Composite Score or the Distress and Risk Assessment Method (DRAM) correlate with clinical outcome. As opposed to those measures (Unlike those measures …?, allergies are a potentially useful predictor variable as they are routinely collected in every patient.

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