Low back pain: Treatment, health effects, and costs

E.N. Berghuis-Mutubuki

Research output: PhD ThesisPhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal

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Original languageEnglish
QualificationPhD
Awarding Institution
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Ostelo, Raymond, Supervisor
  • van Tulder, Maurits, Supervisor
  • van Dongen, Hanneke, Co-supervisor
  • Vleggeert-Lankamp, C.L.A., Co-supervisor, -
Award date29 Jan 2021
Publication statusPublished - 29 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • sciatica
  • low back pain
  • GPE
  • cost-effectiveness
  • health effects
  • transforaminal epidural steroid injections
  • mechanical diagnosis therapy
  • exercise therapy
  • economic evaluations
  • statistical challenges
  • pain
  • disability
  • health related quality of life
  • societal costs
  • longitudinal analysis
  • predictors for high societal costs
  • prediction model
  • high cost-users
  • radiculopathy
  • physiotherapy
  • lumbar disc herniation
  • lumbar disc surgery
  • steroid injections
  • effectiveness
  • systematic review
  • meta analyses
  • current health status
  • change score
  • postoperative
  • cost benefit analysis
  • methodolody
  • clinical trial
  • multiple imputation
  • baseline imbalances
  • skewed costs

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