Practice Choices in Targeted Intrathecal Drug Delivery: An Online Survey Conducted by the Polyanalgesic Consensus Committee

Timothy R. Deer*, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Steven Falowski, Jonathan M. Hagedorn, David Abejón, Marc Russo, Alyson Engle, Jennifer M. Hah, Tim J. Lamer, Alexios G. Carayannopoulos, Corey Hunter, Monique Steegers, Jason Pope

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3 Scopus citations
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1139-1144
Number of pages6
JournalNeuromodulation
Volume24
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021

Funding

We would like to thank additional members of the PACC Survey Workgroup, including: Dr. Michael Saulino for consulting on the survey questions and reviewing the manuscript and Drs. Jay S. Grider, Alyson Engle, and Luz Elena Caceres for reviewing the manuscript. Authors Deer, Hagedorn, Pope, Lamer, Hunter, and Abd-Elsayed developed the survey questions. All authors were assigned to draft portions of the manuscript (Introduction, Methods, Results of the 44 questions, and Discussion) and reviewed the final manuscript. Dr. Deer and Steegers served as senior editors. Source(s) of financial support: This project was supported and funded by the International Neuromodulation Society (INS). No corporate funding was received for this project. No corporate entities had any direct input into the contents of this manuscript or the conclusions of the collaborators. As an INS contractor, Sarah Staples, MA, ELS, assisted with survey deployment, data collection, and manuscript preparation.

Keywords

  • Chronic pain
  • intrathecal drug delivery
  • opioid
  • polyanalgesia
  • survey

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology
  • Neurology
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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