Serious Issues in Authorship, Design, and Conclusions of JAMA Neurology Real-World Evidence Study on Spinal Cord Stimulation Outcomes and Costs as Compared to Conventional Medical Therapy

Timothy Deer; Alaa Abd-Elsayed; Krishnan Chakravarthy; Joshua M. Rosenow; Steven Falowski; Erika Petersen; Julie Pilitsis; Corey Hunter; Dawood Sayed; Michael E. Schatman

doi:10.2147/JPR.S403031

Serious Issues in Authorship, Design, and Conclusions of JAMA Neurology Real-World Evidence Study on Spinal Cord Stimulation Outcomes and Costs as Compared to Conventional Medical Therapy

Timothy Deer, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Joshua M. Rosenow, Steven Falowski, Erika Petersen, Julie Pilitsis, Corey Hunter, Dawood Sayed, Michael E. Schatman^*

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	221-224
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Pain Research
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S403031
State	Published - 2023

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Dr Timothy Deer reports personal fees from Abbott, Boston Scientific and Avanos as a consultant and research investigator; personal fees from Vertos, Saluda, SPR Therapeutics, PainTeq as a consultant, research investigator and owns stock options; personal fees from SpineThera, Nalu, Cornerloc as a consultant and owns stock options; research investigator for Mainstay; personal fees from Ethos and Tissue Tech as a consultant; personal fees from Spinal Simplicity, outside the submitted work. In addition, Dr Timothy Deer has a patent DRG Leads pending to Abbott. Dr Alaa Abd-Elsayed is a consultant for Medtronic, SPR and Curonix. Professor Krishnan Chakravarthy has nothing to disclose. Dr Joshua M Rosenow reports grants, personal fees from Boston Scientific Neuromodulation; personal fees from Stryker, Monteris and AIM Medical Robotics, during the conduct of the study. Dr Steven Falowski is a consultant and research investigator for Abbott, Medtronic and Biotronik; a consultant, research investigator for and owns equity from Saluda; owns equities from SPR and Synerfuse; consultant for Mainstay, outside the submitted work. Dr Erika Petersen reports personal fees from Abbott Neuromodulation, Biotronik, Medtronic Neuromodulation, Presidio Medical and Vertos; reports research funding to institution from Mainstay, Nalu, Nevro, Saluda and SPR; owns stocks from and board of directors for SynerFuse, owns stocks from and Medical Advisory Board for neuro.42, outside the submitted work. Dr Julie Pilitsis reports grants from Medtronic, Boston Sci, Abbott, outside the submitted work. Dr Corey Hunter is a consultant for and received payment for research from Saluda, Abbott, Biotronik, and Mainstay, during the conduct of the study. Dr Dawood Sayed reports personal fees from Nevro and Saluda, outside the submitted work. Dr Michael E Schatman is research consultant for Modoscript and on the Scientific Steering Committee for Collegium, outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.

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Deer, T., Abd-Elsayed, A., Chakravarthy, K., Rosenow, J. M., Falowski, S., Petersen, E., Pilitsis, J., Hunter, C., Sayed, D., & Schatman, M. E. (2023). Serious Issues in Authorship, Design, and Conclusions of JAMA Neurology Real-World Evidence Study on Spinal Cord Stimulation Outcomes and Costs as Compared to Conventional Medical Therapy. Journal of Pain Research, 16, 221-224. https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S403031

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Serious Issues in Authorship, Design, and Conclusions of JAMA Neurology Real-World Evidence Study on Spinal Cord Stimulation Outcomes and Costs as Compared to Conventional Medical Therapy. / Deer, Timothy; Abd-Elsayed, Alaa; Chakravarthy, Krishnan et al.
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