Health-care utilization of patients with chronic back pain before and after rehabilitation

Abstract Background Patients with chronic back pain show an increased use of health-care services leading to high direct costs. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation reduces pain intensity, depression, disability and work inability. The study aims to investigate whether health-care utilization in patient...

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Main Authors: Magdalena Görge, Jeanette Ziehm, Erik Farin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-017-2757-3