Toward Shared Decision-Making in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Irina Sangeorzan   ¹ , MSc ;   Grazia Antonacci   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Anne Martin   ⁴ , BA ;   Ben Grodzinski   ⁵ , BA, MB, BChir ;   Carl M Zipser   ⁶ , MD ;   Rory K J Murphy   ⁷ , MD ;   Panoraia Andriopoulou   ⁸ , PhD ;   Chad E Cook   ^{9, 10, 11, 12} , PT, PhD ;   David B Anderson   ¹³ , PT, PhD ;   James Guest   ¹⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Julio C Furlan   ^{15, 16} , LLB, MBA, MSc, MD, PhD ;   Mark R N Kotter   ^{1, 17} , MD, PhD ;   Timothy F Boerger   ¹⁸ , PhD, ATC ;   Iwan Sadler   ¹ ;   Elizabeth A Roberts   ¹ , MA, MSc ;   Helen Wood   ¹ , LLB, MA ;   Christine Fraser   ^{19, 20} , MSc ;   Michael G Fehlings   ^{21, 22} , MD, PhD ;   Vishal Kumar   ^{23, 24} , MBBS, MS (Orth- PGI), DNB (MAMS), MNASc, Dip. SICOT ;   Josephine Jung   ^{25, 26} , MD, PhD ;   James Milligan   ²⁷ , MD, CCFP ;   Aria Nouri   ²⁸ , MD, MSc ;   Allan R Martin   ²⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Tammy Blizzard   ¹ , DVM ;   Luiz Roberto Vialle   ³⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Lindsay Tetreault   ³¹ , MD, PhD ;   Sukhvinder Kalsi-Ryan   ^{16, 32} , BScPT, MSc, PhD ;   Anna MacDowall   ³³ , MD, PhD ;   Esther Martin-Moore   ¹ ;   Martin Burwood   ¹ ;   Lianne Wood   ^{34, 35} , BScPT, MSc, PhD ;   Abdul Lalkhen   ³⁶ , MB ChB, MSc ;   Manabu Ito   ³⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Nicky Wilson   ³⁸ , MSc, PhD ;   Caroline Treanor   ^{39, 40, 41} , BSc, MSc, PT ;   Sheila Dugan   ¹ ;   Benjamin M Davies   ^{1, 17} , MBChB(Hons), MPhil, MRCS

¹ Myelopathy.org, Cambridge, United Kingdom

² Department of Primary Care and Public Health, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Northwest London, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

³ Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation (CHEPI), Business School, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

⁵ University Hospitals Sussex, NHS Foundation Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom

⁶ Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, United States

⁸ Psychology Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

⁹ Division of Physical Therapy, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, CA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, CA, United States

¹¹ Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, CA, United States

¹² Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, CA, United States

¹³ Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

¹⁴ The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, The Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States

¹⁵ Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁶ The KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁷ Department of Clinical Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

¹⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States

¹⁹ Department of Health Sciences, University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom

²⁰ Physiotherapy Department, National Health Service Lothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

²¹ Division of Neurosurgery and Spine Program, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

²² Division of Neurosurgery, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

²³ Department of Orthopaedics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

²⁴ Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, India

²⁵ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College, London, United Kingdom

²⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

²⁷ Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

²⁸ Division of Neurosurgery, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

²⁹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

³⁰ School of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

³¹ Department of Neurology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

³² Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³³ Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University and Department of Orthopaedics, The Academic Hospital of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

³⁴ Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

³⁵ NeuroSpinal Assessment Unit, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom

³⁶ Northern Care Alliance, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom

³⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Medical Center, Sapporo, Japan

³⁸ Physiotherapy Department, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

³⁹ Department of Physiotherapy, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

⁴⁰ Department of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

⁴¹ School of Physiotherapy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland