Back pain and its impact on economies
Richard Merritt, (919) 684-4148 merri006mc.duke.edu Durham, North Carolina (USA) - In a major analysis of this kind, found a group of researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that patients with pain Back consume more than $ 90 billion annually in health care costs for about 26 billion U.S. dollars that amount directly attributable to the treatment of back pain. The researchers said their findings not only demonstrate the enormous economic impact of back pain, but the hard data, political, and researchers to determine how health resources should be used.The Duke team extracted data from the Medical Expenditure Survey Group (MEPS) in 1998. The MEPS is a national survey conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Center for
Health Statistics. The team found that 25.9 million adults in back pain in 1998, with 172.7 million reports without back pain. To put these costs into perspective, total $ 90 billion spent in 1998 represented 1 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and $ 26 billion in direct costs of back pain represented 2.5 percent of all health care expenditures for that year, said lead researcher Xuemei Luo, Ph.D., who published the results of the Duke study today (January 1, 2004) in the backbone of the newspaper.We believe that the results of our analysis of the prevalence of back pain in the USA highlights and its impact on the health system continues to Luo. Not only are the costs enormous, but differ significantly in patients with different medical histories, socio-economic
and demographic. Significant savings in health could be achieved if this population of patients who receive a salary and targeted. For the purposes of their study, back pain is a pain in any part of the expert called back, was caused by back problems, disc disorders and spinal injuries at some point in 1998.The adult population of 25.9 back pain are generally women (55 percent), white (88.3 percent) and married
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