Nothing Hurts Follow-Up like Follow-Up?

Dear EBSJ Readers, First off, some housekeeping notes. Welcome to the new EBSJ, now combined with Global Spine Journal, and our expanded Editor-in-Chief team with Drs. Jeff Wang and Karsten Wiechert. Please welcome on board our newManaging Editor Danielle Lieberman, who has taken on her new role with much appreciated energy. We would like to thank Thea Swanson for her years of faithful service, and we wish her all the best in her new role as novelist. By combining our resources and outstanding global multispecialty reviewers, we will be able to further expand our readership and offer an ever-increasing variety of peer-reviewed scientific articles from around the world. For EBSJ, we will be able to concentrate even more on our popular in-depth formal systematic reviews as a special service to our AOSpine community. As always, we look forward to your topic suggestions and author inquiries. As an introductory topic to this issue, I would like to recommend to you an article by Lurie et al recently published in Spine, titled “Long-Term Outcomes of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Eight-Year Results of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).”1 I encourage you to read this article for several reasons: