Dosing of lumbar spinal manipulative therapy and its association with escalated spine care: A cohort study of insurance claims

• Brian R. Anderson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brian.anderson@palmer.edu

  Affiliation Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-4697

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• James M. Whedon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James M. Whedon, Patricia M. Herman

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Services Research, Southern California University of Health Sciences, Whittier, California, United States of America

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• Patricia M. Herman

  Contributed equally to this work with: James M. Whedon, Patricia M. Herman

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RAND Center for Collaborative Research in Complementary and Integrative Health, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, United States of America

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