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Defining spine care: a framework for scope, standards, and bidirectional care transitions.

Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski^1,2,3, Morgan P Lorio⁴, Friederike Schömig⁵

¹Division Personalized Pain Research and Education, Center for Advanced Spine Care of Southern Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

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Fragmented spine care leads to inefficiencies. This framework standardizes transitions between surgical and non-surgical care, improving patient navigation and value across the spine-care continuum.

Keywords:

Spine care care transitions interdisciplinary handoffs nonoperative care spine surgery

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Area of Science:

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Healthcare Management
Clinical Pathways

Background:

Modern spine care is fragmented, leading to inconsistent terminology, variable standards, and inefficient patient referrals.
These issues result in duplicated services, delayed or premature escalation of care, and prolonged low-value treatment episodes.

Purpose of the Study:

To present an implementation-oriented conceptual framework to enhance transition reliability across the spine-care continuum.
To address fragmentation and improve coordination in multidisciplinary spine care.

Main Methods:

A narrative synthesis of multisociety position statements, guideline standards, value-based literature, and clinical policy analyses.
Development of a four-element framework focusing on roles, handoff triggers, standardized language, and boundary-zone interventions.

Main Results:

The proposed framework includes defined roles and accountability, explicit bidirectional handoff triggers, standardized procedural language, and coordinated management of complex interventions.
Implementation aims to reduce care drift, enhance safety and consistency, and support timely escalation and de-escalation.

Conclusions:

Standardizing terminology, clarifying accountability, and operationalizing bidirectional transitions are key to improving multidisciplinary spine care.
The framework offers a practical approach to enhance coordination, patient navigation, and overall value in spine care.