The Spine Journal
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 357-360, July 2005

It is time for physicians to embrace cost-effectiveness and cost utility analysis research in the treatment of spinal pain

  • Simon Dagenais, DC, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92701, USA
    • CAM Research Institute, 2102 Business Center Drive, Irvine, CA 92612, USA
    • ,
  • Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92701, USA
    • Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951772, CA 90095, USA
    • Research Division, Southern California University of Health Sciences, 16200 E. Amber Valley Dr., Whittier, CA 90604, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 1125 E. 17th Street, W-127, Santa Ana, CA 92701. Tel.: (714) 547-9822; fax: (714) 547-0443.
    • ,
  • Peter B. Polatin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX 75390, USA

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 FDA device/drug status: not applicable.Nothing of value received from a commercial entity related to this manuscript.

PII: S1529-9430(05)00106-3

doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2005.03.001

The Spine Journal
Volume 5, Issue 4 , Pages 357-360, July 2005

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