Active involvement and intervention in patients exposed to whiplash trauma in automobile crashes reduces costs: A randomized, controlled clinical trial and health economic evaluation

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1799-1804

  Rosenfeld, Mark ^a,b,d   Seferiadis, Aris ^c   Gunnarsson, Ronny ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Research and Development Unit in Primary Health Care   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cost consequence analysis; Physical therapy; Whiplash injuries; Whiplash associated disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; COST OF ILLNESS; EARLY AMBULATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF CARE; SICK LEAVE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 33746072274     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000225975.12978.6c     Document Type: Article

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