Palmer College of Chiropractic

David D. Palmer
Health Sciences Library

Cost Effectiveness

Definition-

Possible Search Terms: cost control, chiropractic and cost effectiveness, cost benefit analysis

Selected Chiropractic Web Resources:

• Chiropractic Resource Organization
• ChiroWeb (Search cost effectiveness)
• American Chiropractic Association
• National Board of Chiropractic Examiners

Other Web Resources

• Institute for Alternative Futures
• National Council Against Health Fraud

Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries

• Enhanced chiropractic coverage under OHIP as a means of reducing health care costs, attaining better health outcomes and achieving equitable access to health services / Pran Manga and Doug Angus
• Treatment of lower back pain : a comparison of medical doctor and chiropractic doctor costs / by Henry William Pratt.
• Chiropractic efficacy and cost effectiveness.
• Job analysis of chiropractic 2005 : a project report, survey analysis, and summary of the practice of chiropractic within the United States / [editor, Mark G. Christensen ... [et al.].
• A Study to examine the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of chiropractic management of low-back pain / by Pran Manga ... [et al.]
• Chiropractic versus medical care : a cost analysis of disability and treatment for back-related workers' compensation cases / by Steve Wolk
• The Cost effectiveness of chiropractic.
• Cost, quality and access as related to the delivery of chiropractic health care / Monica M. Smith.

Selected Citations

• ACA
• Cost-effectiveness studies of medical and chiropractic care for occupational low back pain. a critical review of the literature.Spine J. 2001 Mar-Apr;1(2):138-47.
• Chiropractic in the United States: trends and issues. Milbank Q. 2003;81(1):107-38,
• Comparative analysis of individuals with and without chiropractic coverage: patient characteristics, utilization, and costs.Arch Intern Med. 2004 Oct 11;164(18):1985-92.
• An evaluation of medical and chiropractic provider utilization and costs: treating injured workers in North Carolina.
  J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2004 Sep;27(7):442-8.
• Chiropractic care: is it substitution care or add-on care in corporate medical plans? J Occup Environ Med. 2004 Aug;46(8):847-55.