Thursday, June 25, 2009

This Just In - Fascinating JMPT Study: If You Want to Stay Out Of Hospital Use Chiropractic.

I am paraphrasing, rephrasing and interpreting this great news: If you want to stay out of the hospital, see A Chiropractor!

Dr. Cheri Watts
www.DrCheriWatts.com


Journal of Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics 2007 (May); 30 (4): 263–269

Richard L. Sarnat, MD, James Winterstein, DC, Jerrilyn A. Cambron, DC, PhD

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Comparisons to our original publication's comparative blinded data, using nonrandom matched comparison groups, were descriptively analyzed for differences in age/sex demographics and disease profiles to examine sample bias.

RESULTS: Clinical and cost utilization based on 70,274 member-months over a 7-year period demonstrated decreases of 60.2% in-hospital admissions, 59.0% less hospital days, 62.0% less outpatient surgeries and procedures, and 85% less pharmaceutical costs when compared with conventional medicine IPA performance for the same health maintenance organization product in the same geography and time frame.

CONCLUSIONS: During the past 7 years, and with a larger population than originally reported, the ...non-surgical/nonpharmaceutical approach demonstrated reductions in both clinical and cost utilization when compared with PCPs using conventional medicine alone.


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