Application of "less is more" to low back pain

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Srinivas, Shubha V ^a   Deyo, Richard A ^b   Berger, Zackary D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; IRRADIATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPINE SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GATEKEEPING; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862281727     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.1838     Document Type: Review

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