IPSIS Submits Letter to JAMA on Significantly Flawed Norwegian SCS Study

On November 9, 2022, members of the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society’s Standards and Research Divisions submitted a letter to the editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) identifying significant methodological shortcomings related to patient selection and technique used in a recent spinal cord stimulation study from Norway by Hara et al. The Society hopes to see the letter to the editor published in JAMA shortly, and is also preparing a more comprehensive commentary addressing the study. The article will also be thoroughly critiqued in the upcoming December Research Spotlight, brought to you by the IPSIS Research Division.

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