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| Ingeborg Korthals-de BosSummaryAffiliation: Vrije Universiteit Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and general practitioner care for neck pain: economic evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trialIngeborg B C Korthals-de Bos
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands
BMJ 326:911. 2003..To evaluate the cost effectiveness of physiotherapy, manual therapy, and care by a general practitioner for patients with neck pain...
Cost effectiveness of interventions for lateral epicondylitis: results from a randomised controlled trial in primary careIngeborg B C Korthals-de Bos
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pharmacoeconomics 22:185-95. 2004..The Dutch College of General Practitioners in The Netherlands has issued guidelines that recommend a wait-and-see policy. However, these guidelines are not evidence based...
Economic evaluations and randomized trials in spinal disorders: principles and methodsIngeborg Korthals-de Bos
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine EMGO, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:442-8. 2004..Descriptive methodologic recommendations...
Corticosteroid injections, physiotherapy, or a wait-and-see policy for lateral epicondylitis: a randomised controlled trialNynke Smidt
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, VU University Medical Centre, 1081 BT Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lancet 359:657-62. 2002..Lateral epicondylitis is generally treated with corticosteroid injections or physiotherapy. Dutch clinical guidelines recommend a wait-and-see policy. We compared the efficacy of these approaches...
Indirect and total costs of early rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized comparison of combined step-down prednisolone, methotrexate, and sulfasalazine with sulfasalazine aloneIngeborg Korthals-de Bos
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J Rheumatol 31:1709-16. 2004..CONCLUSION: COBRA therapy adds additional disease control (improvements in disease activity, physical function, and rate of damage progression) at lower or equal cost compared to SSZ in early RA...
Surgery is more cost-effective than splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome in the Netherlands: results of an economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trialIngeborg B C Korthals-de Bos
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 7:86. 2006..The objective of this economic evaluation alongside a randomized trial was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of splinting and surgery for patients with CTS...
Manual therapy, physical therapy, or continued care by the general practitioner for patients with neck pain: long-term results from a pragmatic randomized clinical trialJan L Hoving
Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Clin J Pain 22:370-7. 2006..In the long-term, GP treatment and PT caught up with MT, and differences between the three treatment groups decreased and lost statistical significance at the 13-week and 52-week follow-up...
