Utilization and costs of lumbar and full spine radiography by Ontario chiropractors from 1994 to 2001

Spine Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 556-563

  Ammendolia, Carlo ^a,b   Côté, Pierre ^a,b   Hogg Johnson, Sheilah ^b   Bombardier, Claire ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative databases; Chiropractic; Full spine; Health services utilization; Lumbar spine; Radiography; Time trend analysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CHIROPRACTIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

CHIROPRACTIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE;

EID: 67649823434     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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