Clinical Outcomes
Ann Arbor Spine Center uses written protocols that emphasize a nonsurgical approach first, and surgery is held as the last resort. Ann Arbor Spine Center is the only spine center of excellence in the State of Michigan to track and publish a Clinical Outcome Report Card that documents use of pills, patient satisfaction, and return to function.
New patients coming into Ann Arbor Spine Center completed an intake form that measured their pain level, severity of symptoms and functional status. Three months after their first visit, an outside nurse, not employed by Ann Arbor Spine Center, called a random sample of patients and interviewed them for functional status, symptoms and patient satisfaction. This is the most unbiased method for outcomes analysis. The clinical outcomes presented here are analyzed and validated by an outside firm, Prizm Development, Inc., that specializes in tracking spine outcomes nationally, and is the most experienced entity in the nation related to spine specialty centers.
Unlike most providers of back and neck pain, a spine center typically receives the most complex patients. One in three new patients coming to Ann Arbor Spine Center had previous back surgery elsewhere. Half of all new patients had serious neurological symptoms like pain radiating beyond a knee or elbow, or numbness in a leg or arm — which typically implies a disc-related problem. As to patient satisfaction, 96% were “very satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with the time the doctor spent with them, and 95% would recommend the clinic to a friend.
Quality is a journey, however, rather than a destination, and we are committed to continually improving. This report documents our footprints on that journey. Below is Ann Arbor Spine Center’s Clinical Outcome Report Card for the year 2011.
Ann Arbor Spine Center Clinical Outcome Report Card 2011
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