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Variation in the care of surgical conditions: Spinal stenosis

The new Dartmouth Atlas series on variation in the care of surgical conditions, including this report on the surgical treatment of back pain resulting from spinal stenosis, raises new questions regarding surgical management of both common and less frequently occurring medical conditions. This report...

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Main Author: Martin, Brook Ian
Corporate Authors: Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Atlas Project
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Lebanon, N.H.] The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice 2014, [2014]
Series:Dartmouth atlas of health care series
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520 |a The new Dartmouth Atlas series on variation in the care of surgical conditions, including this report on the surgical treatment of back pain resulting from spinal stenosis, raises new questions regarding surgical management of both common and less frequently occurring medical conditions. This report carefully details the issues surrounding spinal stenosis, including the physical and economic burden, the difficulties of obtaining a definitive diagnosis, and patient decision-making, and, as in previous Atlas analyses, emphasizes geographic practice variation in surgical treatment rates. However, the report also takes a more longitudinal view. The changes over time in which procedure is favored to treat back pain and spinal stenosis are particularly fascinating, driven as they appear to be by a mix of clinical evidence-including emerging long-term results-and physicians' opinions and personal experience 

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