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Vertebroplasty is not a do‐not‐do treatment
Author(s) -
Clark William A
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja15.01201
Subject(s) - george (robot) , citation , library science , art history , art , computer science
uckett and colleagues have classified vertebroplasty as a do-not-do treatment. They referDenced two randomised controlled trials (RCTs) as definitive proof of this. However, the authors failed to heed our clinical opinion published in the MJA that these two trials were “not relevant to the patient group that we treat with vertebroplasty”. We have the largest clinical vertebroplasty experience in Australia, yet our publishedadvicewas apparently ignored. In the article by Duckett and colleagues, Box 1 illustrated the selection process that the authors used to determine do-not-do procedures. The process supposedly excluded evidence which was “contested” or “which was not supported by consulted clinical experts”. Accordingly, vertebroplasty should have been deleted from the list.