Physical medicine and rehabilitation and interdisciplinary spine clinic referrals are associated with increased conversion to spine surgery
Referrals from PM&R and interdisciplinary spine clinics were significantly associated with increased odds of being indicated for surgery at the time of initial evaluation with a spine surgeon. These findings highlight how interdisciplinary efforts may reduce the nonoperative consultations seen by surgical spine clinicians.
Authors
- Karissa Yamaguchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2312-2380)
- Luke Verst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6496-9828)
- Venu M. Nemani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8895-7090)
- Philip K. Louie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-1538)
- Murad Alostaz
- Spencer Raub
- Stella R. Biehl
- Rakesh Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0969-9255)
- Aiyush Bansal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-5501)
- Andrew S. Friedman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3416-1166)
- Allen Benge
Institutions
- University of Washington (US)
- Franciscan Health (US)
- Center for Neurosciences (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PM&R
- Published
- 2025-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pmrj.13390
- Primary Topic
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00