ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2005
The costs for persons sick-listed more than one month because of low back or neck problems. A two-year prospective study of Swedish patients.
Article in European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00906152 (Study of the Association Between Low Back Pain and the Quality of Sleep), which is not on this map. Cited by 48 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Study of the Association Between Low Back Pain and the Quality of Sleep
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48 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Workplace interventions for neck pain in workers.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
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- Associations between Vertebral Localized Contrast Changes and Adjacent Annular Fissures in Patients with Low Back Pain: A Radiomics Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Low back and neck pain: objective and subjective measures of workplace psychosocial and physical hazards.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Article
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Abstract
The total costs for patients who are sick-listed due to back and neck problems have not previously been determined prospectively on an individual basis. This study aimed to determine the total cost to a society, based on individually assessed costs of health services and loss of production in people who are sick-listed 28 days or more for back or neck problems. Detailed data on individuals' health-care consumption due to back or neck problems was collected through prospectively entered diaries and questionnaires, after 4 weeks, 3 months, 1 and 2 years, in a consecutively selected cohort of 1,822 employed persons aged between 18 and 59 years. Costs for health care and production losses due to work absenteeism were determined individually and combined to render total costs to society. The costs for all medical services during the 2-year study were 6.9% of total costs for back and neck problems. The single most expensive medical service was surgery. Transferred to a national level, annual total costs for back and neck problems corresponded to 1% of GNP. In conclusion, direct health-service costs were a small fraction of the total costs, consequently indirect costs offer the greatest potential for savings.
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