Table 2.
Demographic Data: Most Common Structural Component.
| Structural Graft Usage | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allograft | Autograft | Cage | |||||||
| Composite | Cortical | Dense Cancellous | Fibula | Iliac Crest | PEEK | Metallic | Synthetic | Other | |
| Specialty | |||||||||
| Neurosurgery | 12 (6.0) | 7 (3.5) | 2 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 16 (8.0) | 132 (65.7) | 16 (8.0) | 4 (2.0) | 12 (6.0) |
| Orthopedics | 38 (9.6) | 5 (1.3) | 3 (0.8) | 1 (0.3) | 103 (26.2) | 191 (48.5) | 44 (11.2) | 4 (1.0) | 5 (1.3) |
| Practice setting | |||||||||
| Academic | 24 (10.5) | 10 (4.4) | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 51 (22.3) | 110 (48.0) | 23 (10) | 3 (1.3) | 6 (2.6) |
| Nonacademic | 26 (7.1) | 2 (0.5) | 3 (0.8) | 1 (0.3) | 68 (18.6) | 211 (57.8) | 37 (10.1) | 6 (1.6) | 11 (3.0) |
| Years of practice | |||||||||
| <5 years | 23 (12.6) | 6 (3.3) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 47 (25.7) | 83 (45.4) | 15 (8.2) | 4 (2.2) | 4 (2.2) |
| 5-14 years | 14 (6.4) | 5 (2.3) | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.5) | 41 (18.7) | 128 (58.4) | 18 (8.2) | 5 (2.3) | 6 (2.7) |
| ≥15 years | 13 (6.7) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (1.5) | 0 (0) | 31 (16.0) | 112 (57.5) | 27 (13.9) | 0 (0) | 7 (3.6) |
| Region | |||||||||
| Europe | 3 (1.8) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | 19 (11.4) | 102 (61.4) | 22 (13.3) | 6 (3.6) | 12 (7.2) |
| North America | 32 (49.2) | 9 (13.8) | 2 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 18 (27.7) | 2 (3.1) | 2 (3.1) | 0 (0) |
| Africa/Middle East | 2 (3.4) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.7) | 0 (0) | 13 (22.4) | 33 (56.9) | 6 (10.3) | 0 (0) | 3 (5.2) |
| Asia Pacific | 5 (2.9) | 2 (1.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 67 (38.5) | 83 (47.7) | 15 (8.6) | 1 (0.6) | 1 (0.6) |
| Latin America | 8 (6.0) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.8) | 20 (15.0) | 87 (65.4) | 15 (11.3) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.8) |