Amirdelfan, Kasra
Yu, Cong
Doust, Matthew W.
Gliner, Bradford E.
Morgan, Donna M.
Kapural, Leonardo
Vallejo, Ricardo
Sitzman, B. Todd
Yearwood, Thomas L.
Bundschu, Richard
Yang, Thomas
Benyamin, Ramsin
Burgher, Abram H.
Brooks, Elizabeth S.
Powell, Ashley A.
Subbaroyan, Jeyakumar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nevro Corp
Article History
Accepted: 22 May 2018
First Online: 1 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: KA: Personal fees from Nevro Corp., Saluda Medical, and Abbott. Grants from Nevro Corp., Mesoblast, Abbott, Saluda and Biotronik. Scientific advisory board member of Mesoblast, Nalu Medical and Biotronik. CY: Personal fees from Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and St. Jude Medical. LK: Grants from Nevro Corp., Boston Scientific, and Saluda Medical and personal fees from Medtronic, Stimwave and St. Jude Medical. BEG, ESB, AAP and JS: Employees of Nevro Corp. RV: Grants from Nevro Corp. and Boston Scientific and personal fees from Boston Scientific. RB (Coastal Orthopedics and Pain Medicine): Personal fees (speaking engagements) and research grants from Nevro Corp. TLY: Research grants from Boston Scientific, Nevro Corp., and St. Jude Medical; Consulting agreements with Boston Scientific, Nevro Corp., St. Jude Medical and Neuronano; Officer in Meagan Medical (Chief Medical Officer) and Algos Clinical Development (Director). RB (Millennium Pain Center): Consulting agreement with Medtronic; Research Grants from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical and Nevro Corp. TY: Consulting agreement with Nevro Corp. MWD, DMM, BTS, AHB: No conflict.
: This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01609972) on May 30th, 2012 and conducted in compliance with the United States Code of Federal Regulations and in accordance with recommendations of the 18th World Medical Assembly (Helsinki, Finland) guiding physicians in biomedical research. Both the study protocol and informed consent were approved by each participating site’s governing institutional review board (Western Institutional Review Board, Puyallup, Washington; Forsyth Medical Center Institutional Review Board, Winston-Salem, North Carolina).
: All subjects enrolled in the study provided written, informed consent prior to their participation.