Comparing the satisfaction of low back pain patients randomized to receive medical or chiropractic care: results from the UCLA low-back pain study.

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Published in Am J Public Health on October 01, 2002

Authors

Ruth P Hertzman-Miller1, Hal Morgenstern, Eric L Hurwitz, Fei Yu, Alan H Adams, Philip Harber, Gerald F Kominski

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. hertzman_miller@post.harvard.edu

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