Originally posted by Pooka1
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Originally posted by hdugger
The scoliscore would actually take money away from surgeons because the main point of the test is to be able to identify those patients that do not need treatment. So it's really meant to shrink surgical practices so they can focus on those patients that have a higher risk. As well, there's no treatment paradigm they are promoting or repeated genetic testing. So it's a one-time cost and that's it. They've also only included patients that have a clinically diagnosable scoliosis and say specifically that it is not for the general population, i.e. it shouldn't be used as an in-school screening type of test
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