Spine

A group of researchers recently examined surgical hospitalization rates for patients with lumbar spinal stenosis from 2000 to 2009 and published their results in Spine.

Mazor Robotics announced that Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville (Fla.) has acquired a second Renaissance surgical guidance system. 

Here are 18 articles on spine surgery studies and their findings within the last month.

David W. Polly, MD, gave a presentation on determining the cost-effectiveness of spine care and how to translate those findings into the language decision-makers understand at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting earlier this year.

Salim Hayek, MD, program director, Anaesthesiology Pain Medicine at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, discusses personalizing spine patient care.

Patients that underwent surgery for discogenic back pain showed greater improvement at one year than those that underwent non-surgical treatment, according to a study published in The Spine Journal.

Gastonia, N.C.-based CaroMont Health announced the addition of Steven K. Gudeman, MD, to the medical staff at CaroMont Neurosurgery in Gastonia.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons co-signed a letter with five other organizations in support of the Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2013.

An article recently published in The Spine Journal found that survival rate for primary spinal fusion in adult scoliosis patients was 89.8 percent at one year postoperatively.

There are many ways to hire and retain physicians, but attracting candidates to your spine practice can be difficult if you don't know where to start.