I smelled something When I first read this:
"A difficult aspect of this study is how success should be defined.... Does the benefit of the procedure outweigh the inherent risks, particularly to the lower extremity? Is success defined as eliciting a detrusor contraction with stimulation of the dermatome? If this is the definition of success, then this surgery clearly works for the majority of patients."
http://www.xys.org/forum/db/8/136/125.htmlI knew he was trying to find a way to make a failed study successful! The criteria of success was predefined in the protocol {Assess the level of improvement in voiding function after lumbar to sacral ventral nerve re-routing procedure in SCI and spina bifida patients. [ time frame: evaluated at 6 months and 1 year ] }! why trying to tweak it now?