Abstract：
:Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is the leading cause of spinal cord impairment worldwide. Surgical intervention has been demonstrated to be effective and is becoming standard of care. Spine surgery, however, is costly and value needs to be demonstrated. This review serves to summarize the key health economic concepts as they relate to the assessment of the value of surgery for DCM. This is followed by a discussion of current health economic research on DCM, which suggests that surgery is likely to be cost effective. The review concludes with a summary of future questions that remain unanswered, such as which patient subgroups derive the most value from surgery and which surgical approaches are the most cost effective.
journal_name
Neurosurg Clin N Amjournal_title
Neurosurgery clinics of North Americaauthors
Witiw CD,Smieliauskas F,Fehlings MGdoi
10.1016/j.nec.2017.09.013subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-01-01 00:00:00pages
169-176issue
1eissn
1042-3680issn
1558-1349pii
S1042-3680(17)30109-2journal_volume
29pub_type
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