Health economics of interdisciplinary rehabilitation for chronic pain: Does it support or invalidate the outcomes research of these programs?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 127-132

  Becker, Annette ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Back pain; Chronic pain; Economics; Interdisciplinary rehabilitation; Multimodal treatment; Pain clinics; Pain management; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY REHABILITATION; MEDICAL LEAVE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

CHRONIC PAIN; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84861097110     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-012-0249-z     Document Type: Review

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