| PMC full text: | Published online 2012 Oct 29. doi: 10.1007/s00586-012-2553-z
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Table 1
Return to: Surgery Versus Conservative Care for Neck Pain: A Systematic Review
Selection criteria
| Patients | Adults (>18 years of age) with neck pain with or without radiculopathy or myelopathy |
| Interventions | Surgery |
| Control interventions | Conservative care |
| Outcome | Primary outcomes: neck and/or arm pain and neck-pain specific functional status Secondary outcomes: self-perceived recovery (e.g. subjective overall improvement, proportion of patients recovered), lost days at work (e.g. return to work status, number of days off work or with sick-leave) and complications |