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  • Low Back Pain in a Nova Scotian Emergency Department: Prevalence and Patient Characteristics in the Older Adult Patient Population

  • Lucy Federico, Melissa K Andrew, Rachel Ogilvie, Maria Wilson, Kirk Magee, Jill A Hayden
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement / Volume 41 / Issue 2 / June 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 May 2021, pp. 145-153
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  • Low back pain is a major cause of disability in older adults, and results in many emergency department visits each year. Characteristics of the older back pain population are largely unknown. We conducted a retrospective study to examine the prevalence and patient characteristics for older (≥ 65 years of age) and younger (16–64 years of age) adults presenting with back pain. Study objectives were to describe the characteristics of older adults with back pain presenting to an emergency department and to identify age-group-based differences in management. Older adults were most commonly diagnosed with non-specific low back pain (49%). For older adults with this diagnosis, the length of stay was 2.1 times longer (p < 0.001), and odds of being admitted to the hospital were 5.1 times higher (p < 0.001) than for younger adults. Patterns of management are different for younger and older adults with low back pain; this information can be used to direct future resource planning.

  • Dix ans et toujours en train d’apprendre à marcher

  • Jim Ducharme
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 11 / Issue 2 / March 2009
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    21 May 2015, pp. 129-130
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    March 2009
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