Identifying Episodes of Back Pain Using Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) Data: Patient Experience, Use of Services, and Chronicity

doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2010.08.017

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J Manipulative Physiol Ther. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Oct 8.

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J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2010 Oct; 33(8): 562–575.

Published online 2010 Oct 8. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2010.08.017

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Table 1

MEPS respondents who were in-scope and had data for all 5 data collection rounds of the panel, for each 2-year longitudinal panel 10-through-5.

Panel	ALL MEPS respondents	All 5 Rounds	Adults^a	Males^a	White^a
10	15,177	14,186	9,964	6,659	10,698
9	15,631	14,630	10,219	6,858	11,352
8	15,774	14,800	10,344	6,892	11,387
7	15,732	14,784	10,081	6,891	11,432
6	20,578	19,385	13,821	9,190	15,629
5	10,129	9,517	6,797	4,502	7,758
Pooled across Panels 5–10:	93,021	87,302	61,226 (70%)	40,992 (46%)	68,256 (78%)

^aDemographics (adults, sex, race) reported for MEPS respondents in All 5 Rounds. Adult defined as age 18 or older at start of 2-year panel timeframe. White defined in MEPS Years 2002 and after as “White – no other race reported”; White defined in MEPS Years 2001 and earlier as “White”.