Research paper
New Zealanders with Low Back Pain Seeking Health Care: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis of Accident Compensation Corporation-Funded Low Back Pain Healthcare Service Usage
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- Title
- New Zealanders with Low Back Pain Seeking Health Care: A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis of Accident Compensation Corporation-Funded Low Back Pain Healthcare Service Usage
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- Auckland University of Technology
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Introduction: Most New Zealanders experience low back pain (LBP) at least once throughout their lifetime and many seek help from the large range of health providers in primary care. Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) funds a significant proportion of those claims, but which services are they funding and what are the costs? Method: This was a retrospective audit and descriptive analysis of ACC-funded, non-public hospital healthcare service use by people with LBP in New Zealand (NZ). Outco...
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- Research paper
- Research format
- Journal article
- Date created
- 2023-05-29
- Creator
- Hill, Julia / Kay, Dylan / Gordon, Jacob / Niazi, Imran Khan / Saywell, Nicola
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- https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/16418
- Related subjects
- 4201 Allied Health and Rehabilitation Science / 4203 Health Services and Systems / 42 Health Sciences / Health Services / Pain Research / Chronic Pain / Clinical Research / 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services / 8 Health and social care services research / 3 Good Health and Well Being / 1110 Nursing / 1117 Public Health and Health Services / 4203 Health services and systems
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