Single Institutional Cross-Sectional Phone Survey Study: Evaluation of Causes for Loss to Follow-up After Spinal Cord Stimulator Implantation
This paper, the first cross-sectional study of loss to follow-up among patients who are implanted with SCS devices, identifies that up to 19% of patients are quickly lost to follow-up after implantation. Only half of the patients in this study could be reached, with most successfully using their device for meaningful pain control, but a substantial number of patients likely required additional device optimization for pain relief.
Authors
- Michael E Schatman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1019-0413)
- Alan D. Kaye (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2464-0187)
- Christopher L Robinson
- Cyrus Yazdi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0789-2211)
- Jatinder Gill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0812-5356)
- Thomas Simopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5775-7635)
- Michael Glicksman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4882-6851)
- Johnson Ho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9785-2071)
- Alexandra Fonseca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9735-3184)
- Jamal Hasoon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8227-1864)
- Sravya Madabhushi
- Anh Phung Ngo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9336-967X)
- Kevin Hoang
- Kyle Kang
Institutions
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pain Physician
- Published
- 2024-09-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36076/ppj.2024.27.441
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Pain Management and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.28