Cost of Chiropractic Versus Medical Management of Adults With Spine-Related Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review
Same Study As Reference 22
SOURCE
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38448998/
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Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
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Cost of Chiropractic Versus Medical Management of Adults With Spine-Related Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review
Same Study As Reference 22
SOURCE
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38448998/
DISC COMMENTARY
This is the same published systematic review as Reference 22, Cost of Chiropractic Versus Medical Management of Adults With Spine-Related Musculoskeletal Pain, reached through its PubMed listing rather than its PubMed Central copy. The two entries describe one paper accessed through two different online records.
What was studied?
See Reference 22 for full details: 44 pooled studies comparing healthcare costs for adults with spine-related pain who saw a chiropractor first against those managed medically from the start of care.
What did they find?
See Reference 22 for the full findings. Chiropractic-first patients had substantially lower yearly healthcare costs, were 56% less likely to be prescribed an opioid, and needed far fewer MRI or CT scans than those managed medically.
Why it matters
See Reference 22 for the full discussion. The pathway of care taken first can meaningfully affect how much further treatment, imaging and medication a patient ends up needing.
Why we included it
This entry is kept separate from Reference 22 because it points to a different online record of the same paper. See Reference 22 for the full explanation.
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What was studied?
See Reference 22 for full details: 44 pooled studies comparing healthcare costs for adults with spine-related pain who saw a chiropractor first against those managed medically from the start of care.
What did they find?
See Reference 22 for the full findings. Chiropractic-first patients had substantially lower yearly healthcare costs, were 56% less likely to be prescribed an opioid, and needed far fewer MRI or CT scans than those managed medically.
Why it matters
See Reference 22 for the full discussion. The pathway of care taken first can meaningfully affect how much further treatment, imaging and medication a patient ends up needing.
Why we included it
This entry is kept separate from Reference 22 because it points to a different online record of the same paper. See Reference 22 for the full explanation.