Management of patients with low back pain admitted to hospital: An observational study of usual care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowledge gaps exist around diagnostic and treatment approaches for patients admitted to hospital with low back pain.

Methods

Medical record review of patients admitted to three Sydney teaching hospitals with a provisional emergency department diagnosis of non-serious low back pain, from 2016 to 2020. Data on demographic variables, hospital costs, length of stay (LOS), diagnostic imaging and analgesic administration were extracted. Logistic regression was used to identify predictors of longer hospital stay, advanced imaging, and concomitant use of sedating medicines.

Results

Median inpatient LOS for non-specific low back pain was 4 days (interquartile range [IQR] 2-7), and for radicular low back pain was 4 days (IQR 3-10). Older patients with non-serious lo

SUBMITTER: Melman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092628 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature