Results showed the use of decompression and fusion in patients with lumbar degenerative stenosis increased, while the use of just decompression decreased. This is despite prior clinical trials which demonstrated that decompression was not inferior.
Rahul Sastry, MD, along with his colleagues, used the National Inpatient Sample for a retrospective study of data on patients with lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis (n = 100 515) and who underwent decompression plus fusion from 2016 to 2019 or decompression only (n = 21 230).
Researchers have found rates of decompression using
