Low back pain.
An SOI-I low back pain PTE utilized 2.5 office visits with an adult medicine physician compared with 3.7 office visits with an orthopedic surgeon. Adult medicine physicians performed 1.1 tests and administered 4.6 prescriptions during an SOI-I low back pain PTE. Office visits, tests, and prescriptions were the major cost drivers for low back pain PTEs. Of all low back pain PTEs, 19% received one-drug group, and 17.2% received two-drug group treatments. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and central muscle relaxants were the most commonly used medication therapies for these patients.
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