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| Title |
Explosive growth of facet joint interventions in the medicare population in the United States: a comparative evaluation of 1997, 2002, and 2006 data
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, March 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-10-84 |
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| Authors |
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Vidyasagar Pampati, Vijay Singh, Mark V Boswell, Howard S Smith, Joshua A Hirsch |
| Abstract |
The Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-DHHS) issued a report which showed explosive growth and also raised questions of lack of medical necessity and/or indications for facet joint injection services in 2006.The purpose of the study was to determine trends of frequency and cost of facet joint interventions in managing spinal pain. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 47 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 18% |
| Researcher | 8 | 16% |
| Other | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 10 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 24% |
| Engineering | 6 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 4% |
| Psychology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 20% |
| Unknown | 13 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 June 2023.
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#6,912,452
of 22,668,244 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,389
of 7,576 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,477
of 94,924 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#11
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,668,244 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,576 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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