Orthopedics This Week Accuses The Spine Journal of Methodological Errors and Bias (press releasee)
Orthopedics This Week (OTW) released today a scathing critique of The Spine Journal's unprecedented June 2011 critical review of 13 early studies of rhBMP-2.
Said OTW editor and author, Robin Young: "The Spine Journal's (TSJ) recent review of 13 rhBMP-2 studies, (June 2011, The Year of Living Dangerously) has pulled the publication into a morass of methodological errors and unapologetic bias. In short, living dangerously. While our list of errors and apparent bias is by no means exhaustive, it is large enough to create a growing sense of deep unease."
Eugene J. Carragee M.D., Editor in Chief of TSJ and a member of the faculty at Stanford's University School of Medicine was the lead author of the entire June critical review of a group of early studies of rhBMP-2. After the review, the TSJ authors not only repudiated those studies, but linked payments to the authors of those studies from the study's sponsor, Medtronic, Inc. as the explanation for the alleged flaws.
Young wrote in his article: "When we reviewed Carragee's study, however, we discovered deeply tr...
