How many spine surgeries qualifies a surgeon as “experienced”?

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HOW MANY SPINE SURGERIES QUALIFY A SURGEON AS “EXPERIENCED”? (Orthopedics This Week)
A group of Boston researchers set out to determine volume benchmarks for the four commons lumbar spine surgeries—discectomy, decompression, lumbar interbody fusion, and lumbar posterolateral fusion.
The study,” Establishing benchmarks for the volume-outcome relationship for common lumbar spine surgical procedures,” is published in the January 2018 edition of The Spine Journal.
Co-author Andrew J. Schoenfeld, M.D., M.Sc., with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medi...

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