Can a Back Pain E-mail Discussion Group improve health status and lower health care costs?: A randomized study.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on April 08, 2002

Authors

Kate R Lorig1, Diana D Laurent, Richard A Deyo, Margaret E Marnell, Marian A Minor, Philip L Ritter

Author Affiliations

1: Stanford Patient Education Research Center, 1000 Welch Rd, Suite 204, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. lorig@stanford.edu

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