Published in:
01-09-2009 | Editorial
Vertebroplasty: about sense and nonsense of uncontrolled “controlled randomized prospective trials”
Author:
Max Aebi
Published in:
European Spine Journal
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Issue 9/2009
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Excerpt
On 6 August 2009, a paper has been published in the
New England Journal of Medicine, which claims to prove that vertebroplasty is not effective [
1]. This paper has drawn an attention worldwide, which is only rarely given to issues of musculoskeletal system medicine. The
New York Times and almost all major international dailies have reported this work. Dr. Buchbinder, the Australian main author of the mentioned paper has been cited in the
New York Times from 7 August 2009 with the strong sentence “that she would never undergo such an intervention”. This is like a religious confession, and I do not get rid of the suspicion that this confession was there before the study, and the presented work has now proven it. …