Title: Spinal Cord Stimulation Landscape

Consumer Priorities

Focus includes creating a network of SCI consumers interested in research, care, and treatments, developing partnerships between consumers and researchers related to priority setting and other efforts, and improving capacity for consumer-oriented research and care.

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Pre-Clinical Studies

Focus includes making pre-clinical study data available, identifying how it works, developing best practices for pre-clinical studies to determine readiness for clinical studies and exploring questions that arise in the clinical setting.

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Clinical Trials

Focus includes making clinical study data available, developing best practices for clinical design, selection of outcome measures, regulatory submissions, recruitment, health economic evaluation and translation, and accessing existing data from SCI registries to answer clinical outcome questions.

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Best Practices for Clinical Delivery

Focus includes developing Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) and evidence-based protocols, developing knowledge, ways to standardize implementation efforts, coordinating national implementation of standardized best practices, integrating evidence informed practices into SCI standards, and ensuring peer support.

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Commercialization

Focus includes planning to successfully commercialize products and services. This includes integration of economics and implementation science to assess value and developing, communicating and operationalizing a regulatory reform agenda.

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Platforms for Collaboration in SCI Research and Care

Focus includes expanding promising pilot studies to collaborative international multi-centre clinical trials, increasing recruitment for SCI clinical trials, and increasing information exchange between researchers and clinicians to enable further collaboration.

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