Decreasing unnecessary surgery for low back pain

下背痛影响着澳大利亚四分之一的人，每年花费超过80亿澳元用于治疗和工作损失。手术是这种多因素疾病的流行治疗方法，但我们仍然缺乏高质量的科学来支持手术治疗腰痛的作用。我们也缺乏这方面的研究能力。在我的奖学金，我建议进行高质量的研究，以产生和实施在这一领域的科学知识。

Low back pain affects one in four people in Australia and is responsible for over $8 billion spent on treatments and work loss every year. Surgery is a popular treatment approach for this multifactorial condition but we still lack high quality science to support the role of surgery for low back pain. We also lack research capacity in this field. In my fellowship, I propose to conduct high quality studies to generate and implement scientific knowledge in this field.