Want to Ensure Fewer Workdays Missed? Treat According to Guidelines
People with lower back pain injury miss 11 more days of work in a year when they only receive treatments for lower back pain that are not recommended by medical guidelines compared to people treated according to guidelines. The findings were published recently in
“The closer people’s care follows evidence-based guidelines, the faster their back pain resolves, by quite a bit.” senior author Kurt Hegmann, MD, director of the University of Utah Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
That may be so, but 65% of the people included in the study received at least some non-recommended treatments for lower back pain. Among the nearly 60,000 people whose medical claims were analyzed:
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