Evidence-based Practice
Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses
The primary goal is to promote evidence-based practice amongst clinicians through the use of synthesized systematic reviews and meta-analyses based on the highest level of clinical evidence. The NSURG Evidence-Based Practice team is focused on providing its members, patients and public health authorities with an organized database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses pertaining to spine surgery, care and practice.
Our notable recent reviews and meta-analyses include:
- First systematic review and meta-analysis of bacterial infection in symptomatic disc degeneration (In Press, Spine, 2015)
- Minimally invasive unilateral laminectomy versus open laminectomy
- Minimally invasive versus open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
- Extreme lateral lumbar interbody fusion: a systematic review
- Spine interbody implants: material selection and modification, functionalization and bioactivation of surfaces to improve osseointegration
- Bone graft substitutes for anterior lumbar interbody fusion
- Reconstruction versus no reconstruction of iliac crest defects following harvest for spinal fusion: a systematic review: A review
- Technique, challenges and indications for percutaneous pedicle screw fixation