You are standing at the bedside of a neurologically intact patient with a thoracolumbar burst fracture. Do you fix it? Brace it? Flip a coin and pretend it’s “shared decision-making”?
A multinational team led by Said Sadiqi and the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Trauma & Infection did something very useful: they measured what actually matters to patients using the AO Spine PROST (Patient Reported Outcome Spine Trauma) score.
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