Controlled Zygapophysial Joint Blocks: The Travesty of Cost-Effectiveness

Pain Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-34

  Bogduk, Nikolai ^a   Holmes, Scott ^b  

^a ROYAL NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back pain; Cost effectiveness; Diagnosis; Neck pain; Reimbursement; Treatment; Zygapophysial joint

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001947299     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2000.99104.x     Document Type: Article

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