Increases in lumbosacral injections in the medicare population: 1994 to 2001

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1754-1760

  Friedly, Janna ^a   Chan, Leighton ^a   Deyo, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural steroid injection; Low back pain

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; ISCHIALGIA; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; REIMBURSEMENT; SACROILIAC JOINT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MEDICARE PART B; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RADICULOPATHY; SCIATICA; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 34447506193     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3180b9f96e     Document Type: Article

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