Study highlights variations in spinal component costs

In a study, presented today at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, researchers obtained and compared the hospital purchasing records from 45 academic medical centers on the unit costs and volume of spinal products — pedicle screws, anterior cervical plates and posterior interbody cages — purchased from a total of seven vendors.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/aao…