PP68 Economic Burden Of Low Back Pain Treated In Outpatient Care In Brazil From 2010 To 2019
Yara Marques, Maria Augusta Mota, Tais Lacerda, Aline Toledo, Rodrigo Carregaro · 2025
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Low back pain fills clinics, and Yara Marques and co-authors cost out its outpatient care in Brazil's public health system from 2010 to 2019. Drawing on the national ambulatory database, they counted visits, procedures, and spending, and modelled how costs vary with age, sex, and race. Over the decade the system spent more than 189 million US dollars on this one condition.
The volume is striking: over sixteen million physiotherapy sessions, seven thousand surgeries, and a million imaging studies, together about eighty-five percent of the spending. Men cost more per procedure than women, and spending peaked in the thirty-four to sixty-three age band. Imaging prescriptions fell over the period, matching guidelines. The authors say the figures argue for targeted prevention and smarter resource use in ambulatory care for back pain.
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| CREATOR | Yara Marques, Maria Augusta Mota, Tais Lacerda, Aline Toledo, Rodrigo Carregaro |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |