Healthcare Provider Perspectives of Various Signs and Symptoms for Diagnosing Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Results of an International, Multidisciplinary Survey
The integration of expert stakeholder opinion with evidence from existing literature strengthens the clinical framework for identifying key clinical features of DCM. These 27 features will be discussed at an international consensus meeting to establish a standardized clinical screening toolkit that can be used by frontline healthcare professionals to detect patients with DCM.
Authors
- Mark Kotter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5145-7199)
- Anna MacDowall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9231-7608)
- Benjamin M. Davies (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0591-5069)
- Ratko Yurac (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3603-6294)
- Sheila A. Dugan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4029-8011)
- David Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7104-122X)
- James D. Guest (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-0286)
- Brian K. Kwon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5089-8280)
- Lindsay Tetreault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-4292)
- Ligia Onofrei
- Caroline Treanor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6182-6338)
- James S. Harrop (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0943-3406)
- Michael George Fehlings (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5722-6364)
- Esther Martin‐Moore (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6151-3040)
- Sybil Stacpoole (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7357-1443)
- Rohil Chauhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-2305)
- Carl Moritz Zipser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-4796)
- Abdul Ghaaliq Lalkhen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9524-3931)
- Lianne Wood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1039-1642)
- Tore K. Solberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-8867)
- Tanzil Rujeedawa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7089-1684)
- Konstantinos D. Margetis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-8093)
- Manabu Ito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2390-6422)
- Luiz Roberto Vialle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0638-4311)
- Timothy F. Boerger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1587-3704)
- Justin M. Lantz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0978-3211)
- Allan R. Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9495-5654)
- Sukhvinder Kalsi‐Ryan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2332-5986)
- Julio Cesar Furlan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2038-0018)
- Tammy Blizzard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0335-9612)
- Noam Y. Harel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3085-2194)
- Lance Burn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0449-5786)
- Mike Hutton
- Jamie Milligan
- Michael Wing‐Yan Lee
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- National Health Service Scotland (GB)
- University Health Network (CA)
- Universidad del Desarrollo (CL)
- Auckland Institute of Studies (NZ)
- Uppsala University Hospital (SE)
- University of Miami (US)
- Thomas Jefferson University (US)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (BR)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Medical College of Wisconsin (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Toronto Western Hospital (CA)
- Salisbury District Hospital (GB)
- Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (CA)
- Beaumont Hospital (IE)
- Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital (CN)
- Government of New Zealand (NZ)
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Independent Sector (US)
- Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Cambridge School (PT)
- National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Medical Center (JP)
- James J. Peters VA Medical Center (US)
- University of Miami Hospital (US)
- Thinkpath Engineering Services (Canada) (CA)
- Myeloma UK (GB)
- Universitätsklinik Balgrist (CH)
- International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries (CA)
- Addenbrooke's Hospital (GB)
- Neurological Surgery (US)
- University of Salford (GB)
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (NO)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- McMaster University (CA)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Muscle & Nerve
- Published
- 2025-12-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.70068
- Primary Topic
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- AO Foundation