Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee Meeting on lumbar fusion surgery for treatment of chronic back pain from degenerative disc disease

Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2007 Oct 15;32(22):2403-4. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181573841.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Congress
  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Advisory Committees
  • Aged
  • Diskectomy / economics
  • Diskectomy / standards
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Humans
  • Intervertebral Disc Displacement / surgery*
  • Low Back Pain / surgery*
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / pathology
  • Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery*
  • Medicare / standards*
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
  • Postoperative Complications / epidemiology
  • Postoperative Complications / prevention & control
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic / standards*
  • Prosthesis Implantation / economics
  • Prosthesis Implantation / standards
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care / statistics & numerical data
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / statistics & numerical data
  • Risk Assessment
  • Spinal Fusion / economics
  • Spinal Fusion / standards*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • United States