Medication Use for Low Back Pain in Primary Care
@article{Cherkin1998MedicationUF, title={Medication Use for Low Back Pain in Primary Care}, author={Daniel C. Cherkin and K J Wheeler and William E. Barlow and Richard A. Deyo}, journal={Spine}, year={1998}, volume={23}, pages={607–614} }
Study Design. A longitudinal observational study of primary care patients with low back pain. Objectives. 1) To describe medications prescribed for back pain, 2) to identify patient characteristics associated with type of drug therapy, 3) to determine if the prescription of certain drugs is associated with better outcomes, and 4) to compare physician prescribing behavior with national guidelines. Summary of Background Data. Few previous studies have focused on medication prescribing patterns…
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- MedicineSpine
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Over time, among patients with greater functional status impairment at baseline, muscle relaxant users had somewhat slower recovery from the episode of back pain, and this finding persisted after controlling for baseline functional status, age, worker’s compensation status, and use of nonsteroidal inflammatory agents.
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In these older adults consulting their GP with back pain, 72% used analgesics at baseline, and despite a decrease in medication use during follow-up, at 3 and 6 months a considerable proportion still used analgesICS.
Analgesic Usage for Low Back Pain: Impact on Health Care Costs and Service Use
- MedicineSpine
- 2005
Patients with LBP with and without neurologic involvement and those with acquired lumbar spine structural disorders had similar patterns of analgesic use: those with congenital structural disorders were less likely to use analgesics; andThose with psychogenic pain and LBP related to orthopedic devices were more likely toUse opioids.
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NSAIDs are the prevailing treatment for musculoskeletal pain in Finnish primary health care and there was a large variation in prescribing patterns between individual physicians and between different areas of the country.
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- MedicineSpine
- 2005
Perception of improvement was greater among highly satisfied than less satisfied patients throughout the 18-month follow-up period and the estimated effects of satisfaction on clinical outcomes were similar for medical and chiropractic patients.
Pharmacological Management of Low Back Pain
- MedicineDrugs
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When choosing medications for treatment of low back pain, practice guidelines provide a useful starting point for making decisions, but clinicians should base therapeutic choices on individualized consideration and discussion with patients regarding the potential benefits and risks.
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NSAIDs are found to be a dominant strategy as compared with opioids in chronic back pain patients and it might be cost-effective if they are used in patients who did not respond to the NSAIDs.
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Medications for Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Review of the Evidence for an American Pain Society/American College of Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline
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Current evidence on benefits and harms of medications for acute and chronicLow back pain is reviewed as part of a larger evidence review commissioned by the American Pain Society and the American College of Physicians to guide recommendations for management of low back pain.
Classification of Low Back Pain in Primary Care: Using “Bothersomeness” to Identify the Most Severe Cases
- Medicine, PsychologySpine
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There is evidence for the validity of a single bothersomeness question as a measure of LBP severity and it has the potential to provide a practical standard scheme for classifying patients with LBP in clinical practice.
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