Table 3.

Regional barriers to spine surgery instrumentation navigation techniques. 95 % confidence intervals are shown in Supplemental Material 2.

Barriers	Northern Africa	Western Africa	Central Africa	Eastern Africa	Southern Africa	P-Value
Cost of equipment	94.2 %	95.8 %	91.7 %	100 %	100 %	0.78
Hardware incompatibility	56.6 %	12.5 %	25.0 %	63.6 %	23.1 %	0.001
Inexperience	54.7 %	12.5 %	25.0 %	63.6 %	23.1 %	0.001
Lack of trained staff to run the equipment	58.5 %	29.2 %	75.0 %	81.8 %	92.3 %	0.001
Lack of trained staff to service the equipment	69.8 %	33.3 %	50.0 %	81.8 %	92.3 %	0.001