Spine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study
Low back pain in primary care: costs of care and prediction of future health care utilization.
Cost of illness study alongside a randomized controlled trial. ⋯ Interventions designed to reduce high health care costs for LBP should focus on patients with severe LBP and depressive comorbidity. Our results add to the economic understanding of LBP care and may give guidance for future actions on health care improvement and cost reduction.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Multicenter randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of home-based exercise on patients with chronic low back pain: the Japan low back pain exercise therapy study.
Prospective, randomized, controlled trial. ⋯ The home-based exercise prescribed and monitored by board-certified orthopedic surgeons was more effective than NSAIDs for Japanese patients with CLBP.