title: Regional data on low back pain point to improvement potential.
abstract: Data Library: Benchmark your organization's treatment of low back pain. There's wide variation in specialty provider use, utilization of services, and costs of this high-volume medical problem--despite federal guidelines stipulating treatment recommendations. These data are broken out by specialty and on a regional basis.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D003625:Data Collection; D017050:Episode of Care; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States