Nikhil Dholaria, Isabel Bauer, James Kelbert, Giovanni Barbagli, Annemarie Pico, Courtney Deaver, Esteban Quiceno, Kristin Nosova, Amna Hussein, Julie Mayeku, Diego T Soto Rubio, Ibrahim A Alhalal, Endgel Heinzmann, Niels Pacheco, Abdullah Al-Arfaj, Chao Li, Michael Prim, Ali Baaj
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective population-based database analysis from the Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary Medicare/Medicaid Dataset. OBJECTIVE: To provide a comprehensive analysis of trends in spinal orthosis utilization over a 12-year period. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Widespread prescription of spinal orthosis persists, despite evidence suggesting equivocal efficacy in many spinal conditions. The utilization of spinal orthosis on a national level, including prescribing specialty data, has not been previously analyzed...
November 16, 2023: Spine