Spine

Here are seven recent stories on outpatient spine trends and news articles.

  Here are the 10 most-read articles featured on Becker's Spine Review between Feb. 5 and Feb. 9.

The North American Spine Society opened a 30-day comment period on coverage recommendations for lumbar interspinous devices without fusion and decompression Feb. 8. You can find a draft of the proposed coverage policy recommendations here.

Both burnout rates and career satisfaction are high among neurosurgery residents, a national survey in the Journal of Neurosurgery found.

Four spine surgeons discuss the advantages and disadvantages to using robotic image guidance during procedures.

Investigators at the New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery developed the first patient questionnaire to measure the physical and psychological impact of brachial plexus injury and assess surgical outcomes.

Stanford (Calif.) University Medical Center researchers compared decompression alone against fusion for treating degenerative spondylolisthesis.

Here are seven key trends and findings on bundled payments in spine surgery as well as thoughts from four surgeons who believe bundling will become more prevalent in the future.

Here are eight things for spinal surgeons to know for Feb. 8, 2018.

Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine researchers simplified spine oncology treatment for all providers involved in the process. The Lancet Oncology  published the study.