Background: Although extensive reports of clinical outcome after cervical disc replacement
(CDR) and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion exist, few reviews of the cost …

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Object In recent years, there has been increased interest in the use of cervical disc
replacement (CDR) as an alternative to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) …

Introduction To date, there is no consensus on which anterior surgical technique is more
cost-effective in treating cervical degenerative disc disease (CDDD). The most commonly …

Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the cost-effectiveness of
treatments in spine surgery as health care systems in the United States move toward value …

Background Increasing costs put the value of spine surgery under scrutiny. In health
economics, cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) are used to compare the value of competing …

Objective. To perform an evidence-based synthesis of the literature assessing the cost-
effectiveness of surgery for patients with symptomatic cervical degenerative disc disease …

Background Patients with cervical disc herniations resulting in radiculopathy or myelopathy
from single level disease have traditionally been treated with Anterior Cervical Discectomy …

Study Design. A Markov state-transition model was developed to evaluate the cost-
effectiveness of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and cervical disc …

Background Current literature suggests that anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF)
and cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) have comparable clinical outcomes for the treatment of …