Issues in design, conduct, and conclusions of JAMA's Hara et al.'s randomized clinical trial of spinal cord burst stimulation versus placebo stimulation on disability in patients with chronic radicular pain after lumbar spine surgery
Pain Pract. 2023 Mar;23(3):232-233.
doi: 10.1111/papr.13186.
Epub 2022 Dec 11.
1 Department of Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
2 Division of Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3 MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit & Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Health and Well Being, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
4 The Spine & Pain Institute of New York, New York, New York, USA.
5 Department of Anesthesiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
6 Saluda Medical Pty Ltd., Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia.
7 Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group, Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.