LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7

We have read with great interest the article by Minsk et al. in Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders. However, the authors reported a conclusion that is based on possible selection bias in surgical candidates. Physicians are trained in the interpretation of scientific articles; however, not everybody is a...

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Autores principales: Heemskerk, Johan L., Altena, Mark, Kempen, Diederik H. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29435498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13013-017-0147-6
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spelling pubmed-57952792018-02-12 LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7 Heemskerk, Johan L. Altena, Mark Kempen, Diederik H. R. Scoliosis Spinal Disord Letter to the Editor We have read with great interest the article by Minsk et al. in Scoliosis and Spinal Disorders. However, the authors reported a conclusion that is based on possible selection bias in surgical candidates. Physicians are trained in the interpretation of scientific articles; however, not everybody is able to do this. Especially in open access journals, a biased conclusion may have big consequences and may be misleading for patients and family members who can read these articles for free on the internet. BioMed Central 2018-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5795279/ /pubmed/29435498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13013-017-0147-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title_full LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title_fullStr LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title_full_unstemmed LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title_short LETTER TO THE EDITOR CONCERNING: Effectiveness of the Rigo Chêneau versus Boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by Minsk MK, Venuti KD, Daumit GL, Sponseller PD. Scoliosis Spinal Disord. 2017 Mar 20;12:7
title_sort letter to the editor concerning: effectiveness of the rigo chêneau versus boston-style orthoses for adolescent idiopathicscoliosis: a retrospective study, by minsk mk, venuti kd, daumit gl, sponseller pd. scoliosis spinal disord. 2017 mar 20;12:7
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5795279/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29435498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13013-017-0147-6
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