Red flags to screen for vertebral fracture in patients presenting with low-back pain

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Christopher M ^a   Henschke, Nicholas ^b   Maher, Christopher G ^a   van Tulder, Maurits W ^c   Koes, Bart W ^d   Macaskill, Petra ^e   Irwig, Les ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABRASION; ACCIDENT; AGE; CONTUSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL FRACTURES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874802518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD008643.pub2     Document Type: Review

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