Insights into imaging
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Insights into imaging · Aug 2012
Imaging-guided lumbar facet injections: is there a difference in outcomes between low back pain patients who remember to return a postal questionnaire and those who do not?
To determine whether data obtained from patients returning postal questionnaires accurately reflect how patients receiving imaging-guided lumbar facet injections respond. ⋯ Patients returning postal questionnaires report worse outcomes after facet injection. • Method of data collection should be considered when reporting treatment outcomes. • Patients receiving facet injections at more than one level report greater levels of pain reduction.