Introduction The demand for spinal fusion surgery has increased over the last decades.
Health care providers should take costs and cost-effectiveness of these surgeries into …

Abstract Background Context The number of performed instrumented lumbar spine
surgeries and associated health-care-related costs has increased over the last decades …

Background: With increasing costs of health care in the United States, attention is focused
on expensive conditions. Musculoskeletal disorders with low back and neck pain account for …

Background: Interventional techniques for managing spinal pain, from conservative
modalities to surgical interventions, are thought to have been growing rapidly. Interventional …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Several minimally invasive lumbar interbody fusion techniques
may be used as a treatment for spondylolisthesis to alleviate back and leg pain, improve …

Objectives The present study is a systematic review conducted as part of a methodological
approach to develop evidence-based recommendations for economic evaluations in spine …

BACKGROUND CONTEXT The advantages of lateral single position surgery (LSPS) in the
perioperative period has previously been demonstrated, however 2-year postoperative …

Objectives: Review and analyze business related spine articles in top general orthopaedic
journals and compare to top subspecialty spine journals. Design: Literature Review …

Background: Many studies have reported the advantages of anterior lumbar interbody fusion
(ALIF), but the technique is associated with many complications involving nerve injury. This …

Background Increasing costs put the value of spine surgery under scrutiny. In health
economics, cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) are used to compare the value of competing …