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Low back pain: Treatment, health effects, and costs
Berghuis-Mutubuki, E.N.
2021
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Berghuis-Mutubuki, E. N. (2021). Low back pain: Treatment, health effects, and costs.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: General introduction
Theme A: Relationship between low back pain, outcomes, and
costs
Chapter 2: The longitudinal relationships between pain severity and disability versus health-related quality of life and costs among chronic low back pain patients.
Chapter 3: Predictive factors of high societal costs among chronic low back pain patients.
Theme B: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of sciatica
treatments
Chapter 4: Cost-effectiveness of combination therapy (Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment and Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections) among patients with an indication for a
Lumbar Herniated Disc surgery: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
Chapter 5: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of combination therapy (Mechanical diagnosis & treatment & Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injections) for patients with an indication for a lumbar herniated disc surgery: A randomized controlled trial
Chapter 6: Exercise therapy for sciatica. Is it effective? A systematic review and meta-analyses.
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Theme C: Methodological studies
Chapter 7: Current health status strongly inluences the Global Perceived Effect scale which is stable over time in
patients after lumbar disc surgery.
Chapter 8: The statistical approach in trial-based economic evaluations matters: get your statistics together!
General discussion & summary
Chapter 9: General discussion Chapter 10: English Summary Dutch Summary
About the author
Chapter 11: About the author PhD Portfolio List of Publications Acknowledgements 236 260 302 342 350 360 365 366 368
