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Jim Watson
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Latest papers
Early Versus Delayed Microdiscectomy for Chronic Sciatica Lasting 4-12 Months Secondary to Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Global spine journal · 2023
The Clinical Effectiveness of a Physiotherapy Delivered Physical and Psychological Group Intervention for Older Adults With Neurogenic Claudication: The BOOST Randomized Controlled Trial
The Journals of Gerontology Series A · 2022 · senior author
Microdiscectomy Is More Cost-effective Than a 6-Month Nonsurgical Care Regimen for Chronic Radiculopathy.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2022
9 publications.
Early Versus Delayed Microdiscectomy for Chronic Sciatica Lasting 4-12 Months Secondary to Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Bailey CS, Glennie A, Rasoulinejad P, Kanawati A, Taylor D, Sequeira K, Miller T, Watson J, Rosedale R, Bailey SI, Gurr KR, Siddiqi F, Urquhart JC
The Clinical Effectiveness of a Physiotherapy Delivered Physical and Psychological Group Intervention for Older Adults With Neurogenic Claudication: The BOOST Randomized Controlled Trial
Esther M Williamson, Graham Boniface, Ioana R. Marian, Susan Dutton, Angela Garrett, Alana Morris, Zara Hansen, Lesley Ward, Philippa J. A. Nicolson, David Rogers, Karen Louise Barker, Jeremy C. T. Fairbank, Judith Fitch, DAVID P. FRENCH, Christine M. Comer, Christian David Mallen, Sarah E Lamb, Mandy Maredza, Stavros Petrou, Julie Bruce, Frances Griffith, Professor Gary S. Collins, Charles E. Hutchinson, Richard Gagen, Mandy Slack, Oliver Conway, Judith Fitch, Eileen Turner, John Arden, David John Torgerson, et al. (37 authors)
Microdiscectomy Is More Cost-effective Than a 6-Month Nonsurgical Care Regimen for Chronic Radiculopathy.
Glennie RA, Urquhart JC, Koto P, Rasoulinejad P, Taylor D, Sequeira K, Miller T, Watson J, Rosedale R, Bailey SI, Gurr KR, Siddiqi F, Bailey CS
Discectomy Compared with Standardized Nonoperative Care for Chronic Sciatica Due to a Lumbar Disc Herniation: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial with 2-Year Follow-up.
Bailey CS, Glennie A, Rasoulinejad P, Kanawati A, Taylor D, Sequeira K, Miller T, Watson J, Rosedale R, Bailey SI, Gurr KR, Siddiqi F, Urquhart JC
Cost-utility analysis of microdiscectomy versus non-operative management for the treatment of chronic radiculopathy secondary to lumbar disc herniation
Andrew Glennie, Jennifer C. Urquhart, Prosper Koto, Parham Rasoulinejad, Tom Miller, Jim Watson, Fawaz Siddiqi, Keith Sequeria, Christopher S. Bailey
Surgery versus Conservative Care for Persistent Sciatica Lasting 4 to 12 Months.
Bailey CS, Rasoulinejad P, Taylor D, Sequeira K, Miller T, Watson J, Rosedale R, Bailey SI, Gurr KR, Siddiqi F, Glennie A, Urquhart JC
Canadian Spine Society01.1.1: Surgery versus standardized nonoperative care for the treatment of lumbar disc herniations: a Canadian trial02.1.1: Wait times for elective spine surgery across Canada: data from the Canadian Spine Outcomes and Research Network03.1.1: Presurgical physician utilization in elective thoracolumbar spine surgery candidates: a nationwide analysis from the CSORN database04.1.2: Activities performed and treatments conducted prior to consultation with a spine surgeon: Are patients and clinicians following evidence-based clinical practice guidelines?05.1.2: Patient-reported disability versus objective physical performance measures in assessing patient recovery06.1.2: Risk factors for work status in low back pain patients: a cross-sectional analysis of patients presenting to the Ontario Inter-professional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics07.1.3: Comparison of symptomatic, functional and demographic characteristics of postsurgical versus nonoperative LBP patients08.1.3: Are primary care patients with different patterns of low back pain epidemiologically distinct?09.1.3: Lack of prognostic model validation in low back pain prediction studies10.1.4: Larger scoliosis curve magnitude is associated with increased surgical and perioperative complications: a multi-centre analysis of 1173 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis curves11.1.4: Superior extension of upper instrumented level in distraction-based surgery: a surrogate for clinically significant PJK12.1.4: The optimal surgical approach for Lenke 5 curves: Is the anterior approach ready for a comeback?13.1.5: Improving quality and safety in pediatric spine surgery: the team approach14.1.5: Posterior vertebral column resection in pediatric deformity: the advantages of staging15.1.5: Minimally invasive surgery in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: lessons learned at mean 2-year follow-up16.2.1: Development of a Canadian competency-based spine surgery fellowship education curriculum17.2.1: Computer-assisted surgery is an effective educational tool for the training of orthopedic surgery residents in pedicle screw placement18.2.1: Validation of the Calgary Spine Severity Score19.2.2: Can triaging referrals with a simple 3-item pain questionnaire reduce wait times for consultations for patients who would benefit from lumbar spinal surgery?20.2.2: Strategies to improve the credibility of meta-analyses in spine surgery: a systematic survey21.2.2: The societal cost of waiting to see a spine surgeon for lower back symptoms in Canada22.2.3: The cost of an adverse event depends on its definition and method of capture23.2.3: Economic evaluation of intraoperative cone beam CT-based navigation for the placement of spinal pedicle screws: a patient-level cost-effectiveness analysis24.2.3: Predictors of inappropriate emergency department utilization following elective thoracolumbar spine surgery25.2.4: Incidence, impact and risk factors of adverse events in thoracic and lumbar spine fractures. An ambispective cohort analysis of 390 patients26.2.4: Factors associated with adverse events in major elective spine, knee, and hip in-patient orthopedic surgery27.2.4: Prognostic factors for survival in surgical series of symptomatic metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: a prospective North American multicentre study in 142 patients28.2.5: A comparison of 2 prospective adverse event recording tools with institutional ICD-10 coding for detecting perioperative adverse events in patients undergoing spinal surgery29.2.5: Assessment of impact of long-cassette standing radiographs on surgical planning for lumbar pathology: an international survey of spine surgeons30.2.5: Long-term patient-reported outcome and surgical survivorship of MIS fusion for low-grade spondylolisthesis31.3.1: The effect of prolonged postoperative antibiotic administration on the rate of infection in patients undergoing posterior spine surgery requiring a Hemovac drain32.3.1: Preliminary results of a Phase 1 trial on the use of photodynamic therapy in vertebral metastases33.3.1: The minimal clinically important difference of the modified Japanese Orthopaedic Association score in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy undergoing surgical intervention34.3.1: Patient and surgeon radiation exposure during spinal instrumentation using intraoperative CT-based navigation35.3.2: Are postoperative pelvic parameters and sagittal balance predictive of further lumbar surgery in patients with spinal stenosis?36.3.2: Postoperative ambulation in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty and elective lumbar spine surgery to treat arthritic pathologies37.3.2 Pain on the brain: Is the SF-36 mental component summary enough?38.3.2: Accurate and safe cervical osteotomy for kyphotic deformity in ankylosing spondylitis39.3.3: Adjacent segment pathology in the lumbar spine: progressive disease or a consequence of iatrogenic fusion?40.3.3: The association of cervical spine alignment with
Christopher S. Bailey, Alexandra C Stratton, Neil A. Manson, Elliot I. Layne, Melissa D. McKeon, Simon A. Harris, Greg McIntosh, Lauren DellaMora, Greg McIntosh, Firoz Miyanji, Nadim Joukhadar, Firoz Miyanji, Firoz Miyanji, Firoz Miyanji, Firoz Miyanji, Jérémie Larouche, Ahmed Aoude, Godefroy Hardy-St-Pierre, Darren M. Roffey, Nathan Evaniew, Ghazal S. Fazli, Clifford Lin, Nicolas Dea, Meghan Flood, Andrew Glennie, Dov B. Millstone, Anick Nater, Christopher D. Witiw, Dominic M. Maggio, Simon A. Harris, et al. (421 authors)
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Jim Watson
Frequent collaborators
- Michael Fehlings and Eric Massicotte: 146 shared papers
- Anthony Perruccio and Elizabeth Badley: 101 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Arjun Sahgal: 95 shared papers
- Cari Whyne and Margarete Akens: 73 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Christopher Witiw: 69 shared papers
- Elizabeth Badley and Aileen Davis: 57 shared papers
- Christopher Bailey and Kevin Gurr: 57 shared papers
- Christopher Bailey and Parham Rasoulinejad: 49 shared papers
- Cari Whyne and Albert Yee: 47 shared papers
- Brian Wilson and Margarete Akens: 46 shared papers
- Anthony Perruccio and Aileen Davis: 44 shared papers
- Stewart Bailey and Kevin Gurr: 37 shared papers
- Christopher Bailey and Stewart Bailey: 33 shared papers
- Albert Yee and Margarete Akens: 32 shared papers
- Cari Whyne and Brian Wilson: 31 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and David Mikulis: 29 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Albert Yee: 28 shared papers
- Albert Yee and Brian Wilson: 26 shared papers
- Cari Whyne and Arjun Sahgal: 24 shared papers
- Jean Ouellet and Maryse Fortin: 21 shared papers
- Kevin Gurr and Parham Rasoulinejad: 21 shared papers
- Arjun Sahgal and Christopher Witiw: 19 shared papers
- Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong and Christopher Bailey: 18 shared papers
- Jean Ouellet and Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong: 14 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Anthony Perruccio: 12 shared papers
- Eric Massicotte and Arjun Sahgal: 12 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Aileen Davis: 11 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong: 10 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Maryse Fortin: 9 shared papers
- Christopher Witiw and Christopher Bailey: 9 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Jean Ouellet: 8 shared papers
- Albert Yee and Eric Massicotte: 8 shared papers
- Stewart Bailey and Parham Rasoulinejad: 8 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Desmond Kwok: 7 shared papers
- David Mikulis and Eric Massicotte: 7 shared papers
- Keith Sequeira and Christopher Bailey: 6 shared papers
- Keith Sequeira and Kevin Gurr: 6 shared papers
- Christopher Bailey and Jim Watson: 6 shared papers
- Keith Sequeira and Stewart Bailey: 5 shared papers
- Keith Sequeira and Jim Watson: 5 shared papers
- Stewart Bailey and Jim Watson: 5 shared papers
- Kevin Gurr and Jim Watson: 5 shared papers
- Parham Rasoulinejad and Jim Watson: 5 shared papers
- David Mikulis and Aileen Davis: 4 shared papers
- Anthony Perruccio and Maryse Fortin: 4 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Albert Yee: 3 shared papers
- Desmond Kwok and Michael Fehlings: 3 shared papers
- Desmond Kwok and Anthony Perruccio: 3 shared papers
- Michael Fehlings and Elizabeth Badley: 2 shared papers
- Gordon Guyatt and Michael Fehlings: 1 shared paper
- Gordon Guyatt and Ghazal Fazli: 1 shared paper
- Gordon Guyatt and Marc Desjardins: 1 shared paper
- Gordon Guyatt and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Desmond Kwok and Ghazal Fazli: 1 shared paper
- Desmond Kwok and Marc Desjardins: 1 shared paper
- Desmond Kwok and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Michael Fehlings and Ghazal Fazli: 1 shared paper
- Michael Fehlings and Marc Desjardins: 1 shared paper
- Michael Fehlings and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Cari Whyne and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Albert Yee and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- David Mikulis and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Brian Wilson and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Margarete Akens and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Anthony Perruccio and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Elizabeth Badley and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Aileen Davis and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Eric Massicotte and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Arjun Sahgal and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Jean Ouellet and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Christopher Witiw and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Ghazal Fazli and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Maryse Fortin and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Marc Desjardins and Jim Watson: 1 shared paper
- Department of Surgery
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
- Department of Radiation Oncology
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Department of Medical Imaging
- Epidemiology Division
- Other
Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Christopher Bailey
Department of Surgery
6 shared papers, latest 2023
Stewart Bailey
Department of Surgery
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Kevin Gurr
Department of Surgery
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Parham Rasoulinejad
Department of Surgery
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Keith Sequeira
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Michelle Ghert
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Paul Moroz
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Michael Fehlings
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Cari Whyne
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Albert Yee
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Peter Coyte
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2015
David Mikulis
Department of Medical Imaging
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Pierre Côté
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Brian Wilson
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Margarete Akens
Department of Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Michael Salter
Institute of Medical Science
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Anthony Perruccio
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Paul Macpherson
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Elizabeth Badley
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Sean Christie
Computer Science
1 shared papers, latest 2015
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