Low Back Pain in Primary Care : Costs of Care and Prediction of Future Health Care Utilization

Cost of illness study alongside a randomized controlled trial. To describe the costs of care for patients with low back pain (1) and to identify patient characteristics as predictors for high health care cost during a 1-year follow-up (2). Low back pain (LBP) is one of the leading causes of high hea...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Spine 2010-08, Vol.35 (18), p.1714-1720
Main Authors: Becker, Annette, Held, Heiko, Redaelli, Marcus, Strauch, Konstantin, Chenot, Jean F., Leonhardt, Corinna, Keller, Stefan, Baum, Erika, Pfingsten, Michael, Hildebrandt, Jan, Basler, Heinz-Dieter, Kochen, Michael M., Donner-Banzhoff, Norbert
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
back pain
Biological and medical sciences
Cerebrospinal fluid. Meninges. Spinal cord
Chronic Disease
cost-of-illness
Cross-Sectional Studies
Delivery of Health Care - economics
Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
depression
Female
Forecasting
Health Care Costs - trends
Health participants
Humans
Low Back Pain - economics
Low Back Pain - psychology
Low Back Pain - rehabilitation
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes)
Neurology
Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - methods
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Predictive Value of Tests
primary care
Primary Health Care - economics
Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Primary Health Care - trends
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
severity of low back
Young Adult
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!