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- Title
Trends in the numbers of spine surgeries and spine surgeons over the past 15 years.
- Authors
Kazuyoshi Kobayashi; Koji Sato; Fumihiko Kato; Tokumi Kanemura; Hisatake Yoshihara; Yoshihito Sakai; Ryuichi Shinjo; Tetsuya Ohara; Hideki Yagi; Yuji Matsubara; Kei Ando; Hiroaki Nakashima; Shiro Imagama
- 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.
- Subjects
SPINAL surgery; DEGENERATION (Pathology); EPIDEMIOLOGY; MINIMALLY invasive procedures; KYPHOPLASTY; OPERATIVE surgery
- Publication
Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, 2022, Vol 84, Issue 1, p155
- ISSN
0027-7622
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18999/nagjms.84.1.155