SOSORT consensus paper: School screening for scoliosis. Where are we today?

Theodoros B. Grivas; Marian H. Wade; Stefano Negrini; Joseph P. O'Brien; Toru Maruyama; Martha C. Hawes; Manuel Rigo; Hans R. Weiss; Tomasz Kotwicki; Elias S. Vasiliadis; Lior Sulam; Tamar Neuhous

doi:10.1186/1748-7161-2-17

SOSORT consensus paper: School screening for scoliosis. Where are we today?

Theodoros B. Grivas, Marian H. Wade, Stefano Negrini, Joseph P. O'Brien, Toru Maruyama, Martha C. Hawes, Manuel Rigo, Hans R. Weiss, Tomasz Kotwicki, Elias S. Vasiliadis, Lior Sulam, Tamar Neuhous

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This report is the SOSORT Consensus Paper on School Screening for Scoliosis discussed at the 4th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities, presented by SOSORT, on May 2007. The objectives were numerous, 1) the inclusion of the existing information on the issue, 2) the analysis and discussion of the responses by the meeting attendees to the twenty six questions of the questionnaire, 3) the impact of screening on frequency of surgical treatment and of its discontinuation, 4) the reasons why these programs must be continued, 5) the evolving aim of School Screening for Scoliosis and 6) recommendations for improvement of the procedure.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	17
Journal	Scoliosis
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-7161-2-17
State	Published - Nov 26 2007
Externally published	Yes

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