Surgery Less Likely if a Doctor of Chiropractic is Seen First A - TopicsExpress



          

Surgery Less Likely if a Doctor of Chiropractic is Seen First A study looking at 1885 workers, 174 of which had lumbar spine surgery in the last three years, sought to identify early predictors of having lumbar spine surgery. The authors reported “Approximately 42.7% of workers who first saw a surgeon had surgery, in contrast to only 1.5% of those who saw a chiropractor. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the multivariate model was 0.93 (95% confidence interval, 0.92-0.95), indicating excellent ability to discriminate between workers who would versus would not have surgery.” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23238486
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:56:31 +0000

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