Nico Sollmann, Aaron J Fields, Conor O'Neill, Lorenzo Nardo, Sharmila Majumdar, Cynthia T Chin, Duygu Tosun, Misung Han, An T Vu, Eugene Ozhinsky, Lubdha M Shah, Richard E Harris, Remy Lobo, William Anderst, Richard Herzog, Matthew A Psioda, Christopher J Standaert, River T Price, Jeffrey C Lotz, Thomas M Link, Roland Krug
Management of patients suffering from low back pain (LBP) is challenging and requires development of diagnostic techniques to identify specific patient subgroups and phenotypes in order to customize treatment and predict clinical outcome. The Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Spine Imaging Working Group has developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for spinal imaging protocols to be used in all BACPAC studies. These SOPs include procedures to conduct spinal imaging assessments with guidelines for standardizing the collection, reading/grading (using structured reporting with semi-quantitative evaluation using ordinal rating scales), and storage of images...
September 7, 2022: Pain Medicine