Automated, patient-interactive, spinal cord stimulator adjustment: A randomized controlled trial

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 572-580

  North, Richard B ^a,b,f   Calkins, Sherri Kae ^b,c   Campbell, David S ^b   Sieracki, Jeffrey M ^d   Piantadosi, Steven ^a   Daly, Michael John ^e   Dey, P Bobby ^e   Barolat, Giancarlo ^c   Burchiel, Kim J ^g   Whitworth, Louis A ^g   Broggi, Giovanni ^g   Kanpolat, Yücel ^g   Savas, Ali ^g   Björn, Meyerson ^g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stimsoft Inc   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Center for Pain Management   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Pain drawing; Paresthesia mapping; Personal computer; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; MICROCOMPUTER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0037371458     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000047818.99414.FB     Document Type: Article

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