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Overview

This Webinar is brought to you by NANS

An esteemed panel of neuromodulation experts will discuss a recent JAMA article: Long-Term Outcomes in Use of Opioids, Nonpharmacological Pain Interventions, and Total Costs of Spinal Cord Stimulators Compared with Conventional Medical Therapy for Chronic Pain. This upcoming seminar is an attempt to clarify the article’s findings and communicate to the clinical professional community and policymakers about biases introduced in this publication. Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to:

• Be introduced to the retrospective comparative effectiveness type of studies
• Discuss the design of extensive cohort studies
• Assess the reliability of outcome measures for assessment of the long-term efficacy of SCS treatment
• Evaluate the finding and limitations of this study
• Appraise the conclusions the authors made based on the results
• Make recommendations for designing and conducting future long-term follow-up retrospective and prospective studies

Moderators

Alaa Abd-Elsayed, MD, MPH

Irina Duff, MD, PhD

Nick Knezevic, MD, PhD

Anuj Bhatia, MD

Panelists

Tim Deer, MD

Richard North, MD, PhD

Magda Anitescu, MD, PhD, FASA

Nagy Mekhail, MD, PhD

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