Opposite drug prescription and cost trajectories following integrative and conventional care for pain--a case-control study.

OBJECTIVES:Pharmacotherapy may have a limited role in long-term pain management. Comparative trajectories of drug prescriptions and costs, two quality-of-care indicators for pain conditions, are largely unknown subsequent to conventional or integrative care (IC) management. The objectives of this st...

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Main Authors: Tobias Sundberg, Max Petzold, Niko Kohls, Torkel Falkenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4020818?pdf=render