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ArticleInterventional pain medicine2024

Factfinders for patient safety: Epidural steroid injection in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.

George Christolias, Aditya Raghunandan, Byron J Schneider, Kunj Amin, David Hao, Jaymin Patel, International Pain and Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

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Article in Interventional pain medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

George ChristoliasColumbia University Medical Center, Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Aditya RaghunandanUT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Byron J SchneiderVanderbilt University Medical Center, Dept of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Nashville, TN, USA.
Kunj AminAscension Texas Spine and Scoliosis, Austin, TX, USA.
David HaoDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Jaymin PatelEmory University, Department of Orthopaedics, Atlanta, GA, USA.
International Pain and Spine Intervention Society's Patient Safety Committee

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This FactFinder presents a brief summary of the evidence suggesting that epidural steroid injections can be safely performed even in the setting of severe, multilevel lumbar spinal stenosis.

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PMID39507696
PMCPMC11538785

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