From the Department of *Medicine, and †Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, OR Health and Science University, Portland, OR; ‡Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; §Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ¶Department of Neurosurgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; ∥Department of Orthopaedics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and **Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Acknowledgment date: October 21, 2008. Revision date: December 19, 2008. Acceptance date: December 22, 2008.
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