Acupotomy has become an important method in the clinical treatment of cervical spondylosis, but there is no standard COS to evaluate the efficacy of acupotomy in the treatment of cervical spondylosis. We planned COS for cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR). This is different from the protocol for the development of a core outcome set for cervical spondylosis of vertebral artery type, including time for measuring the outcomes: the type of vertebral artery targeted in the CSA-COS study. At the same time, in contrast to the study of a core outcome set for clinical trials postoperative axial symptoms in patients with cervical spondylosis, the COS studied by their team is a postoperative residual symptom of cervical spondylosis. However, we evaluated all the symptoms and problems that occurred during the whole course of acupotomy treatment of cervical spondylosis. Moreover, CSR accounts for 50 to 60% of all types of cervical spondylosis, and its incidence is the highest among all types of cervical spondylosis, so this work is crucial.
ContributorsXiaohang Yang
Disease Category: Anaesthesia & pain control
Disease Name: cervical spondylosis
Age Range: 18 - 120
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy
- Clinical experts
- Conference participants
- Consumers (caregivers)
- Consumers (patients)
- Families
- Researchers
- Statisticians
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- COS for practice
- Consensus conference
- Delphi process
- Focus group(s)
- Interview
- Literature review
- Nominal group technique (NGT)
- Semi structured discussion
- Survey
- Systematic review
1. Establish stakeholder groups
2. Search relevant literature in English database from January 2023 to December 2024
3. Semi-structured interviews with patients
4. Data collection from literature research and patient survey
5. Two rounds of Delphi questionnaire
6. A consensus meeting was held to determine the outcome