Physical Therapy or Advanced Imaging as First Management Strategy Following a New Consultation for Low Back Pain in Primary Care: Associations with Future Health Care Utilization and Charges

Managing Low Back Pain in the Primary Care Setting: The Know-Do Gap

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The Cascade of Medical Services and Associated Longitudinal Costs Due to Nonadherent Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Low Back Pain

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Diagnostic Imaging for Low Back Pain: Advice for High-Value Health Care From the American College of Physicians

(2013) Roger Chou   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Design and Use of Performance Measures to Decrease Low-Value Services and Achieve Cost-Conscious Care

(2013) David W. Baker   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Initial Management Decisions After a New Consultation for Low Back Pain: Implications of the Usage of Physical Therapy for Subsequent Health Care Costs and Utilization

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Patients’ expectations of acute low back pain management: implications for evidence uptake

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Communicating information about “what not to do” to consumers

(2013) John S Santa   BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Adherence to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging among Workers with Acute Occupational Low Back Pain

(2013) Janessa M. Graves et al.   HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Iatrogenic Consequences of Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Acute, Work-Related, Disabling Low Back Pain

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Physician Self-Referral of Lumbar Spine MRI With Comparative Analysis of Negative Study Rates as a Marker of Utilization Appropriateness

(2012) Ben E. Paxton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY

Application of “Less Is More” to Low Back Pain

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The Association of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use and Health Care Expenditures for Back and Neck Problems

(2012) Brook I. Martin et al.   MEDICAL CARE

A Policy-into-Practice Intervention to Increase the Uptake of Evidence-Based Management of Low Back Pain in Primary Care: A Prospective Cohort Study

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(2012) Julie M. Fritz et al.   SPINE

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(2012) Janessa M. Graves et al.   SPINE

The “Top 5” Lists in Primary Care

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An overview of the objectives of and the approaches to propensity score analyses

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Appropriate Use of Diagnostic Imaging in Low Back Pain: A Reminder That Unnecessary Imaging May Do as Much Harm as Good

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The impact of computerized provider order entry systems on medical-imaging services: a systematic review

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Physician Self-Referral for Imaging and the Cost of Chronic Care for Medicare Beneficiaries

(2011) Danny R. Hughes et al.   MEDICAL CARE

An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

(2011) Peter C. Austin   MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Effectiveness of Clinical Decision Support in Controlling Inappropriate Imaging

(2011) C. Craig Blackmore et al.   Journal of the American College of Radiology

Relationship of Early Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Work-Related Acute Low Back Pain With Disability and Medical Utilization Outcomes

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The Association Between Lumbar Disc Degeneration and Low Back Pain

(2010) Evelien I. T. de Schepper et al.   SPINE

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(2010) Alfred Campbell Gellhorn et al.   SPINE

Analysis of Appropriateness of Outpatient CT and MRI Referred From Primary Care Clinics at an Academic Medical Center: How Critical Is the Need for Improved Decision Support?

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Overtreating Chronic Back Pain: Time to Back Off?

(2009) R. A. Deyo et al.   Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

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(2009) Roger Chou et al.   LANCET

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® on Low Back Pain

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Expenditures and Health Status Among Adults With Back and Neck Problems

(2008) Brook I. Martin   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

A systematic review of low back pain cost of illness studies in the United States and internationally

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