Centers of Excellence Could Answer Difficult Treatment Questions, Researcher Says

Medical centers of excellence could play a key role in finding the best treatments for difficult conditions, a Workers Compensation Research Institute fellow said during a webinar on Thursday. Dr. Randall Lea, a WCRI senior fellow, said centers of excellence — which gather together providers with expertise in a particular medical area — could help answer questions that thus far have been unanswerable.  For example, Lea said, the centers could look more closely at spine surgery outcomes to determine how much pain relief can be expected from a particular procedure, and the cha...