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Adjusting for Inflation and Higher Surgery Costs in a Cost-Effectiveness Study of Spinal Surgery
TO THE EDITOR:
I appreciated the article by Tosteson and colleagues (1) estimating the cost-effectiveness of back surgery. As a retired general internist who treated many patients with back pain at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Hospital over many years in both short-term and long-term settings (“walk-in” clinic, emergency department, scheduled general medical clinic) and who has some familiarity with Richard Deyo's seminal work on back pain, several questions …
