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Problem-Based Decision Making

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The surgical decision-making process is an art form. No single strategy always works, and even the most inadequate of strategies will work occasionally. The decision-making process involves the assimilation of prior experience of others (e.g., by a learned assessment of the literature), and an in-depth knowledge and awareness of the application of biomechanical and anatomical factors and principles (1).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Michael P. Steinmetz MD

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

    Anis O. Mekhail MD

  3. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Edward C. Benzel MD

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Lerner College of Medicine and The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Robert F. McLain MD

  2. The Cleveland Clinic Spine Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski MD  & Edward C. Benzel MD, FACS  & 

  3. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

    Maurie Markman MD

  4. Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Ronald M. Bukowski MD

  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH

    Roger Macklis MD

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Steinmetz, M.P., Mekhail, A.O., Benzel, E.C. (2006). Problem-Based Decision Making. In: McLain, R.F., Lewandrowski, KU., Markman, M., Bukowski, R.M., Macklis, R., Benzel, E.C. (eds) Cancer in the Spine. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-971-4_28

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