Chronic pain and health services utilization: Is there overuse of diagnostic tests and inequalities in nonpharmacologic treatment methods utilization?

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 859-869

  Azevedo, Luís Filipe ^a,b,c   Costa Pereira, Altamiro ^a,b,c   Mendonça, Liliane ^a,c   Dias, Cláudia Camila ^a,b   Castro Lopes, José M ^a,c,d  

^a Inst of Pharmacol and Therapeutics   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Centro Nacional de Observaçaõ em Dor OBSERVDOR Portuguese National Pain Observatory   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

chronic pain; epidemiology; health services research; health services utilization; prevalence

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NIMESULIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXICAM DERIVATIVE; PARACETAMOL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CHIROPRACTIC; CHRONIC PAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOMEOPATHY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REIKI; RELAXATION TRAINING; REST; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINE DISEASE; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOGA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884816265     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a53e4e     Document Type: Article

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