ArticleNagoya journal of medical science2022
Trends in the numbers of spine surgeries and spine surgeons over the past 15 years.
Article in Nagoya journal of medical science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of preoperative mental health status on spine surgery outcomes: a systematic review.BMC surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Turning the screw: assessing the impact of full power-assisted versus manual pedicle screw insertion in paediatric spine surgery.Spine deformity · 2025Pooled it
- Intraoperative cell salvage utilization for blood conservation during pediatric and adult spinal surgery: a state-of-the-art systematic review.Spine deformity · 2025Pooled it
- The influence of psychological factors on postoperative clinical outcomes in patients undergoing lumbar spine surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.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 · 2025Pooled it
- Do nutritional assessment tools (PNI, CONUT, GNRI) predict adverse events after spinal surgeries? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Pooled it
- Quality improvement in the management of degenerative spinal disorders: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.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 · 2026Review
- Longitudinal changes in women's representation in spine surgery: a 10-year medicare database analysis.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 · 2026Article
- A novel pedicle-PMMA-augmented screw resists reverse windshield-wiper failure in osteoporotic spine fixation: parameter optimization by finite element analysis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Preoperative impairment of the joint position sense in the big toe is a risk factor for delayed recovery of mobility after lumbar spinal stenosis surgery.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 · 2026Article
- Budget impact analysis of robot-assisted versus conventional spine surgery in Spain.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Article
- Review
- Do GLP-1 agonists affect perioperative risk in spine surgery? A systematic review and meta-analysis.North American Spine Society journal · 2026Review
- Sex-Specific Differences and Risk Factors for Postoperative Urinary Retention after Spine Surgery with TIVA.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2026Article
- Preoperative Functional Mobility as a Predictor of Exceeding the Planned Length of Hospital Stay after Lumbar Fusion Surgery for Spinal Stenosis.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Accuracy of Robotic-Guided Pedicular Screw Insertion in Thoracolumbar Spinal Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Frailty as an Independent predictor of perioperative risk and recovery in long-segment thoracolumbar fusion surgery: A retrospective cohort study.North American Spine Society journal · 2025Article
- Incidence of spine surgery for degenerative and traumatic pathologies in patients with a history of cancer: a nationwide register-based study between 1997 and 2020 from Finland.Acta orthopaedica · 2025Article
- [Molecular imaging and biology · 2025Article
- Challenging the Dogma of Dead Space Obliteration With Muscle Flaps in Deep Spinal Surgical Site Infections.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- A new sensing paradigm for the vibroacoustic detection of pedicle screw loosening.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors at 10 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine trends in spine surgeries at ten facilities over 15 years, and to analyze relationships with the number of spine surgeons at these facilities. The subjects were patients who underwent spine surgery at the ten facilities from 2003 to 2017. Data were collected every year via a questionnaire designed to obtain clinicopathological and surgical information. There were 37,601 spine surgeries (60.2% male) recorded in the registry at 9 facilities in the Nagoya Spine Group (NSG) between 2003 and 2017, with an increase in the annual number of surgeries by 2.4 times over 15 years. On the other hand, the number of spine surgeons has increased by just under 1.5 times. Instrumentation surgeries increased from 959 in 2003 to 2,276 in 2017 (2.3 times). There was a particularly marked increase in surgeries for spinal degenerative disease from 1,075 in 2003 to 2,821 in 2017 (2.6 times). The number of surgeries performed per surgeon increased from 61.4 in 2003 to 102.8 in 2017, while the average number of spine surgeons per hospital increased from 2.6 in 2003 to 3.7 in 2017. In conclusion, with heavier burden on spine surgeons and the major changes in the spine surgery environment, training and increasing surgeons with advanced expertise and skills will become increasingly important.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.