Emerging Spinecare Trends
Evidence-Based Care
Evidence-based spinecare
refers to purposeful use of the best available information when making
decisions about the care delivered to patients with spine disorders. It
requires the integration of clinical expertise with clinical evidence
from published research and peer delivered consensus reports.
Evidence-based care will enable members of the spinecare team to offer
the greatest benefit for the least expense. Considerable emphasis over
the last decade has been placed on improving methods of acquired and
correlating evidence from systematic reviews for the purpose of
developing evidence-based guidelines and measures. Future advances in
technology, diagnostic methods, and spine informatics will facilitate
further development of intuitive databases which will be used to develop
clinical guidelines and algorithms. Evidence-based spinecare will
continue to contribute to more informed decisions and improved spinecare
outcome.