Background For many years, low back pain has been both the leading cause of days lost
from work and the leading indication for medical rehabilitation. The goal of the German …

Chronic back pain is among the most common patient complaints. Its prevalence and impact
have spawned a rapidly expanding range of tests and treatments. Some of these have …

Recommendation 1: Clinicians should conduct a focused history and physical examination
to help place patients with low back pain into 1 of 3 broad categories: nonspecific low back …

In trial‐based cost‐effectiveness analysis baseline mean utility values are invariably
imbalanced between treatment arms. A patient's baseline utility is likely to be highly …

Background Some clinicians do lumbar imaging routinely or in the absence of historical or
clinical features suggestive of serious low-back problems. We investigated the effects of …

Abstract Description In September 2017, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and US
Department of Defense (DoD) approved the joint Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for …

Objectives To assess the temporal change in test use in UK primary care and to identify tests
with the greatest increase in use. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting UK primary …

BACKGROUND: There are few published data on the treatment patterns and burden of
neuropathic pain. We have investigated this in a large, observational, cross-sectional …

Importance Diagnostic tests are often ordered by physicians in patients with a low pretest
probability of disease to rule out conditions and reassure the patient. Objective To study the …

Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. To systematically search for critically appraise
and summarize studies that (1) evaluated the association between degenerative magnetic …