Open AccessHeterogeneity Among Hospitals in the Percentages of All Lumbosacral Epidural Steroid Injections Where the Patient Had Received 4 or More in the Previous Year
Author(s) -
Amy C.S. Pearson,
Franklin Dexter,
Richard H. Epstein
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000004253
Subject(s) - medicine , lumbosacral joint , epidural steroid injection , lumbar , confidence interval , anesthesia , surgery , low back pain , alternative medicine , pathology
Current guidelines for the administration of therapeutic epidural injections suggest that these be limited to a maximum of 4 per year. We sought to gain an understanding of the proportion of lumbosacral epidural injections administered to patients who had received ≥4 such injections during the preceding 364 days, and whether these proportions varied among hospitals.