Scandinavian journal of primary health care
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Jun 2000
Smokers over age 35 continue to receive oral contraceptives. Survey of patients in a family practice residency practice.
To assess the frequency with which women over age 35 report both current oral contraceptive use and current cigarette smoking. ⋯ Despite reported cardiovascular risk, women who smoke continue to receive prescriptions for oral contraceptives. Physicians should redouble efforts to record smoking status and offer smoking cessation treatment to women over age 35 who smoke and wish to take oral contraceptives.
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Mar 2000
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialCost-minimisation analysis of three conservative treatment programmes in 180 patients sick-listed for acute low-back pain.
To perform a cost-minimization analysis of three conservative treatment regimes for acute low-back pain (LBP). ⋯ With respect to total costs, the findings were similar between the three treatment programmes. The GPP had the lowest direct costs. It is not possible to conclude which treatment programme is to be recommended as a least cost alternative. The strong effect of indirect costs on the total cost stresses that further studies should focus on methods of shortening sick-leave.
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Scand J Prim Health Care · Sep 1999
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialAttitudes towards pain and return to work in young immigrants on long- term sick leave.
To explore attitudes towards pain and returning to work in young immigrants on long-term sick leave because of chronic pain. ⋯ Differences in attitudes towards pain and in qualities of pain anxiety, either focusing on the meaning of pain and its consequences or on the immediate experience of pain, might influence rehabilitation.
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To investigate the prevalence of back pain in a general population aged between 20 and 59 years. ⋯ The prevalence of back problems in the vocational ages was found to be 23%. Only small parts of a pain population are on sick-leave or have changed working tasks because of back problems. The distribution of pain in most cases is combined with radiation to extremities and not isolated to a single region. The combination of different localisations shows the pain problem to be more than just a "low back" problem.