Willis K Dean
Alabama Pain Center, 964 Airport Road, Suite 1, Huntsville, AL 35801, USA.
Anesthesiol Clin North Am. 2003 Dec;21(4):817-23. doi: 10.1016/s0889-8537(03)00089-0.
SCS was found to be cost-effective and therapeutically effective in this study for a majority of patients who had successful trial screening and were determined to be suitable candidates for SCS therapy. This is consistent with prior research if not slightly more encouraging, because typically half of the patients implanted with SCS reported 50% or more pain relief. Strikingly, most patients were considered cost successes. Overall, this study provides continued support that spinal cord stimulation offers the medical community an effective treatment for pain and reduces costs associated with the treatment of chronic intractable pain patients.
在本研究中，对于大多数成功通过试验筛查并被确定为脊髓刺激（SCS）治疗合适候选者的患者，发现SCS具有成本效益且治疗有效。这与先前的研究一致，即便不是更令人鼓舞的话，因为通常植入SCS的患者中有一半报告疼痛缓解了50%或更多。引人注目的是，大多数患者在成本方面是成功的。总体而言，这项研究持续支持了脊髓刺激为医学界提供了一种有效的疼痛治疗方法，并降低了与慢性顽固性疼痛患者治疗相关的成本。
