Table 3.

Number of encounters with patients with undiagnosed degenerative cervical myelopathy per year as a function of the year of qualification.

Number of encounters	Year qualified and responses
	2017-2019 (n=70), n (%)	2018-2019 (n=57), n (%)	2019 (n=44), n (%)	Post-2000 (n=341), n (%)	Pre-2000 (n=206), n (%)
0	36 (51.4)	30 (52.6)	25 (56.8)	122 (35.8)	48 (23.3)
1-5	29 (41.4)	22 (38.6)	15 (34.1)	182 (53.4)	124 (60.2)
6-10	4 (5.7)	4 (7)	3 (6.8)	25 (7.3)	22 (10.7)
11-15	1 (1.4)	1 (1.8)	1 (2.3)	9 (2.6)	7 (3.4)
16+	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	3 (0.9)	5 (2.4)