Clinical outcome measures and their evidence base in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a systematic review to inform a core measurement set (AO Spine RECODE-DCM)

• Robert Chen,
• Benjamin Davies,
• Mark Kotter,
• Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar,
• Julio C Furlan,
• Bizhan Aarabi,
• Michael G Fehlings,
• James S Harrop,
• Armin Curt,
• Ellen Sarewitz,
• Carl Moritz Zipser,
• Timothy F Boerger,
• James Milligan,
• Lindsay Tetreault,
• Angus GK McNair,
• Keng Siang Lee,
• Alvaro Yanez Touzet,
• Aniqah Bhatti,
• Esmee Dohle,
• Faheem Bhatti,
• Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto,
• James D Guest,
• Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan

Affiliations

Robert Chen

Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Benjamin Davies

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Mark Kotter

Department of Clinical Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Academic Department of Neurological Surgery, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Julio C Furlan

Department of Medicine, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilita, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bizhan Aarabi

Division of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Michael G Fehlings

Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

James S Harrop

Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Health System, St Louis, Philadelphia, USA

Armin Curt

Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Ellen Sarewitz

Myelopathy.org, Cambridge, UK

Carl Moritz Zipser

Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Timothy F Boerger

Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

James Milligan

Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lindsay Tetreault

Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Angus GK McNair

Centre for Surgical Research, Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, Avon, UK

Keng Siang Lee

Bristol Medical School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Alvaro Yanez Touzet

School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, Manchester, UK

Aniqah Bhatti

School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Esmee Dohle

School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Faheem Bhatti

School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto

Spinal Unit (UVM), Department of Orthopaedics, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

James D Guest

Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan

KITE Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada