Background: To describe characteristics of patients, providers, and clinics associated with
opioid or non-opioid pain medication prescribing patterns for patients who received lower …

Background Information on the prevalence of common imaging findings among patients
without back pain in spine imaging reports might affect pain medication prescribing for …

Methods This retrospective study evaluated the provider-specific proportion of LABP patients
discharged from an urban academic ED over a seven-month period with a prescription for …

Purpose Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most frequent reasons for medical consultations.
Literature suggests a large evidence-performance gap, especially regarding pain …

Importance Opioid musculoskeletal pain overprescribing was widespread in the mid-2000s.
The degree to which prescribing changed as awareness of the danger grew among …

International clinical practice guidelines for low back pain (LBP) contain consistent
recommendations including universal provision of information and advice to remain active …

Introduction: Physical therapy (PT) early in the management of low back pain (LBP) is
associated with reductions in subsequent health care utilization and LBP-related costs. The …

Background: Professional societies have provided inconsistent guidance regarding whether
older patients should receive early imaging for low back pain, in the absence of clinical …

Background: The United States is facing a widespread opioid epidemic that
disproportionately affects the working-age population. In the clinical setting, new low back …

Importance Substantial patient racial and ethnic differences in opioid prescribing have been
documented, but how much of these differences were attributable to physicians prescribing …