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SUBMITTER: Gold LS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5384601 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gerontology & geriatric medicine 20170116
<b>Objective:</b> To describe associations between health care utilization measures and patient-reported outcomes (PROs). <b>Method:</b> Primary data were collected from patients ≥65 years with low back pain visits from 2011 to 2013. Six PROs of pain and functionality were collected 12 and 24 months after the index visits and total and spine-specific relative value units (RVUs) from electronic health records were tabulated over 1 year. We calculated correlation coefficients between RVUs and 12- ...[more]