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Monthly Journal Club
The Spine Medicine is pleased to host a monthly journal club where providers and spine specialists review and discuss selected topics and articles from peer-reviewed journals that pertain to spine medicine. The journal club meets in order to resolve spine medicine controversies and discuss evidence-based conclusions. The journal club will improve our medical practices by leading us toward a more evidence-based practice.
Journal club meetings are held the first Monday of every month at 6 p.m. MST. Selected articles and meeting locations are distributed to journal club members approximately one week in advance of the meeting via e-mail.
If you are interested in joining the Spine Medicine Institute journal club, please e-mail Steven Matthew at stevmatt@sarmc.org for additional information. Articles discussed at past meetings are listed below, as well as other key articles that may be of interest to spine care providers.
Monthly Journal Club Articles |
April
| 2010 High Rates of Inappropriate Drug
Use in the Chronic Pain Population Opioid Treatment Guidelines:
Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy
in Chronic Noncancer Pain |
July
| 2009 Mortality After Lumbar Fusion Surgery |
June
| 2009 Piriformis and Related Entrapment Syndromes:
Diagnosis & Management
Sciatica of nondisc origin and piriformis
syndrome: Diagnosis by magnetic resonance neurography
and interventional magnetic resonance imaging with outcome
study of resulting treatment |
May
| 2009 Treatment of Chronic
Pain with Spinal Cord Stimultion versus Alternative
Therapies: Cost Effective Analysis
Spinal Cord Stimulation versus
Repeated Lumbosacral Spine Surgery for Chronic Pain: A Randomized,
Controlled Trial |
April
| 2009 The Spine Journal: Proximal junctional
acute collapse cranial to multi-level lumbar fusion:
a cost analysis of prophylactic vertebral augmentation.
Cervical CT-Guided, Selective Nerve Root
Blocks: Improved Safety by Dorsal Approach. |
March
| 2009 |
May
| 2008 Zucherman, J. MD, Hsu K. MD, Hartjen C. MD, et al (2005). "A
multicenter, prospective, randomized trial evaluating
the X STOP interspinous process decompression system
for the treatment of neurogenic intermittent claudication:
two-year follow-up results." Spine 30(12):1351-1358. Siddiqui, M. MD, Smith, F. MD, & Wardlaw, D. MD.
(2007). "One-year results of X Stop interspinous
implant for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis." Spine 32(12):1345-1348. Hsu, K. MD, Zucherman, J. MD, Hartjen, C. MD, et al.
(2006). "Quality of life of lumbar stenosis–treated
patients in whom the X STOP interspinous device was implanted." J
Neurosug Spine 5: 500-507. Anderson, P. MD, Tribus, C. MD, Kitchel, S. MD, et al.
(2006). "Treatment of neurogenic claudication by
interspinous decompression: application of the X STOP
device in patients with lumbar degenerative Spondylolisthesis." J
Neurosug Spine 4: 464-471. |
April
| 2008
Chang, U. MD, Kim, D. MD, Lee, M. MD et al. (2007). "Range
of motion change after cervical arthroplasty with ProDisc-C
and Prestige artificial discs compared with anterior
cervical discectomy and fusion." J Neurosug
Spine 7: 40-46. |
February
| 2008
Derby,
R. MD, Lettice, J. MD, Kula, T, MD, Lee, S, MD, PhD,
et al (2005). "Single-level lumbar fusion in
chronic discogenic low-back pain; psychological and
emotional status as a predictor of outcome measured
using the 36-item Short Form." J Neurosurg
Spine 3: 255-261. |
December
| 2007 |
October
| 2007 |
July
| 2007
Wilco,
Peul, C. M.D., et al. (2007). “Surgery versus
Prolonged Conservative Treatment for Sciatica.” New
England Journal of Medicine 356:2245-56. |
June
| 2007 |
April |
2007
Weinstein,
James, N. D.O., et al. (2006). “Surgical vs Nonoperative
Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient
Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) Observational Cohort.” JAMA 296(20):
2451-2459. |
March
2007 |
Other Articles |
Weinstein,
James N., D.O., et cal. (2006). “United States’ Trends
and Regional Variations in Lumbar Spine Surgery: 1992–2003.” SPINE 31(23):
2707–2714. |
Chou,
Roger M.D. and Huffman, Laurie, H. M.S. (2007). “Nonpharmacologic
Therapies for Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Review
of the Evidence for an American Pain Society/American
College of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline.” Annals
of Internal Medicine 147(7): 492-504. |
Chou,
Roger M.D. and Huffman, Laurie, H. M.S. (2007). “Medications
for Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Review of the
Evidence for an American Pain Society/American College
of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline.” Annals
of Internal Medicine 147(7): 505-514. |
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