title: Evidence-based clinical practice for the neurointerventionalist.
abstract: The field of neurointerventional (NI) surgery has developed in the context of technologic innovation. Many treatments readily provided in 2014 would have been hard to imagine as recently as 10 years ago. The reality of present day NI care is that, while providers, payors, policy makers and patients rely on evidence to guide NI decision-making, the available data are often less robust than participants might desire. In this paper we will explore the fundamentals of evidence-based clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: Neuroendovascular Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Joshua A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hirsch
authors.affiliation: Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Aquilla S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Turk
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mocco
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, State University of New York-Stonybrook, Stonybrook, New York, USA.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Fiorella
authors.affiliation: Warren Alpert School of Medical at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: Mahesh V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Jayaraman
authors.affiliation: Departments of Radiology and Neurological Surgery, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Phillip M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Meyers
authors.affiliation: Neuroendovascular Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Albert J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.affiliation: Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, Kentucky, USA Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
authors.forename: Laxmaiah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Manchikanti
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D038361:Neuronavigation / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends
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