Where the United States spends its spine dollars: Expenditures on different ambulatory services for the management of back and neck conditions

Spine

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1693-1701

  Davis, Matthew A ^a,b   Onega, Tracy ^a,b,c   Weeks, William B ^a,b   Lurie, Jon D ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

back pain; Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS); neck pain; spine expenditures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFLATION, ECONOMIC; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; SPINAL DISEASES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865861900     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182541f45     Document Type: Article

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