The Global Spine Care Initiative: methodology, contributors, and disclosures

• DOI: 10.1007/s00586-018-5723-9
• Publication Date: 2018-08-27T06:05:03Z
• Authors: Claire D. Johnson; Scott Haldeman; Margareta Nordin; Roger Chou; Pierre Côté; Eric L. Hurwitz; Bart N. Green; Deborah Kopansky-...; Kristi Randhawa; Christine Cedraschi; Arthur Ameis; Emre Acaroğlu; Ellen Aartun; Afua Adjei-Kwayisi; Selim Ayhan; Amer Aziz; Teresa Bas; Fiona Blyth; David Borenstein; O’Dane Brady; Peter Brooks; Connie Camilleri; Juan M. Castellote; Michael B. Clay; Fereydoun Davatchi; Jean Dudler; Robert Dunn; Stefan Eberspaecher; Juan Emmerich; Jean Pierre Farcy; Norman Fisher-Jeffes; Christine Goertz; Michael Grevitt; Erin A. Griffith; Najia Hajjaj-Hass...; Jan Hartvigsen; Maria Hondras; Edward J. Kane; Julie Laplante; Nadège Lemeunier; John Mayer; Silvano Mior; Tiro Mmopelwa; Michael Modic; Jean Moss; Rajani Mullerpatan; Elijah Muteti; Lillian Mwaniki; Madeleine Ngandeu...; Geoff Outerbridge; Shanmuganathan Ra...; Heather Shearer; Matthew Smuck; Erkin Sönmez; Patricia Tavares; Anne Taylor-Vaisey; Carlos Torres; Paola Torres; Alexander van der...; Leslie Verville; Emiliano Vialle; Gomatam Vijay Kumar; Adriaan Vlok; William Watters; Chung Chek Wong; Jessica J. Wong; Hainan Yu; Selcen Yüksel
• Keywords: Back Pain; Global Health

The purpose of this report is to describe the Global Spine Care Initiative (GSCI) contributors, disclosures, and methods for reporting transparency on development recommendations. World convened GSCI develop an evidence-based, practical, sustainable healthcare model spinal care. initiative aims improve management, prevention, public health spine-related disorders worldwide; thus, global representation was essential. A series meetings established initiative's mission goals. Electronic surveys collected contributorship demographic information, experiences with conditions better understand perceptions potential biases that were contributing Sixty-eight clinicians scientists participated in deliberations are authors one or more articles. Of these experts, 57 reported providing spine care 34 countries, (i.e., low-, middle-, high-income as well underserved communities countries.) majority personally experiencing having a close family member concerns including: trauma injury, problems required emergency surgical intervention, pain referred from non-spine sources, deformity, pathology disease, neurological problems, and/or mild, moderate, severe back neck pain. There no substantial conflicts interest. participants have broad professional experience wide international distribution discipline dominating deliberations. believes set papers has inform globally. These slides can be retrieved under Supplementary Material.