Prediction of physician visits and prescription medicine use for back pain
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 83 (2) , 369-377
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(99)00121-9
Abstract
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which specific patient attitudes and beliefs about medical care and self-care for back pain predict future healthcare use. An automated database allowed examination of the predictive relationships in two primary care patient sampKeywords
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