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Truly Reducing Health Care Spending

Marianne Udow-Phillips

Posted by Marianne Udow-Phillips on May 2, 2011

The April 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes an important article on how comparative effectiveness research can pay for itself.  In it, the authors describe two procedures to treat osteoporotic vertebral fractures (compression fractures caused by osteoporosis): one in which cement is injected into the vertebral body to support the fractured bone; and one in which a balloon is inserted and inflated in a collapsed vertebral body, restoring the bone’s height before the cement injection.

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