The Spine Journal
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 8-20, January 2008

A systematic review of low back pain cost of illness studies in the United States and internationally

  • Simon Dagenais, DC, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    • CAM Research Institute, Irvine, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 25 Corona Ave., Rockcliffe, ON, K1M 1K8, Canada. Tel.: (949) 466-8132; fax: (949) 266-8951.
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  • Jaime Caro, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Internal Medicine and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
    • Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • Research Division, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Whittier, CA, USA

Received 25 September 2007; accepted 13 October 2007.

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PII: S1529-9430(07)00898-4

doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2007.10.005

The Spine Journal
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 8-20, January 2008

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