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ArticleGlobal spine journal2018

Precision Spine Care: A New Era of Discovery, Innovation, and Global Impact.

Dino Samartzis, Mauro Alini, Howard S An, Jaro Karppinen, S Rajasekaran, Luiz Vialle, Jeffrey C Wang, Marinus de Kleuver

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Article in Global spine journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. The "Spine Intelligence" Era: AI, simulations and LLMs advancing precision spine care.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2026
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  4. Development and application of predictive clinical biomarkers for low back pain care: recommendations from the ISSLS phenotype/precision spine focus group.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025
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  7. Artificial intelligence in predicting early-onset adjacent segment degeneration following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2022
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  11. Low back pain in children: a rising concern.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Dino SamartzisRush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Mauro AliniAO Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland.
Howard S AnRush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jaro KarppinenOulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
S RajasekaranGanga Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
Luiz ViallePontificia Universidade Catolica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Jeffrey C WangUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Marinus de KleuverRadboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID29977715
PMCPMC6022953

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