Design of the Verbiest trial: Cost-effectiveness of surgery versus prolonged conservative treatment in patients with lumbar stenosis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Overdevest, Gijsbert M ^a,b   Luijsterburg, Pim A J ^c   Brand, Ronald ^a   Koes, Bart W ^c   Bierma Zeinstra, Sita M A ^c   Eekhof, Just A H ^a   Vleggeert Lankamp, Carmen L A M ^a   Peul, Wilco C ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SPINAL STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952101855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-12-57     Document Type: Article

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