Patient Characteristics for Lumbar Fusion Surgery with Asthma Comparison

Julian Smith-Voudouris created this dataset comparing patient characteristics for those undergoing posterior lumbar fusion surgery, segmented by asthma status. It contains tabular data in an XLS file of 5.5 KB, last updated in March 2026. The specific row count and column features are not provided.

Use Cases

• Compare demographic or clinical patient characteristics between cohorts with and without asthma.
• Analyze associations between asthma status and other recorded patient variables for lumbar fusion outcomes.
• Use the asthma indicator variable to stratify risk assessments or surgical planning models.

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC BY 4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• The 5.5 KB file size indicates a compact, focused dataset for targeted analysis.
• Includes a clear temporal reference point with a last update date of March 2026.

Limitations

• The 5.5 KB size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing only summary statistics or a small sample.
• Unknown row and column counts prevent assessment of dataset scale and feature richness.
• Lack of sample data or column descriptions limits understanding of the specific variables available.

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