Non-Specific Low Back Pain Patients, Treatment, and SDoH

A retrospective cohort of 82,112 adults diagnosed with non-specific low back pain from 2000 to 2019, sourced from the TriNetX Database. The dataset compares patients with and without documented social determinants of health (SDoH) to analyze associations with treatment modality selection and timing. It was created by Kostiantyn Botnar and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the odds of receiving specific treatment categories (medication, rehabilitation, procedures) based on SDoH factors.
• Conducting time-to-event analysis for treatment initiation intervals among different patient subgroups.
• Investigating the association between specific SDoH codes (e.g., housing, occupational exposure) and conservative treatment pathways.

Strengths

• Includes 82,112 patient records, providing a substantial cohort for analysis.
• Uses propensity score matching to balance groups with (n=22,450) and without (n=59,662) SDoH factors.
• Covers a 20-year time range (2000-2019) from a specific clinical database (TriNetX).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the final analytic dataset after matching is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the TriNetX Database and ICD-10-CM coding practices.

Provenance

Source

TriNetX Database

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study using ICD-10-CM codes (Z55-Z65) to identify SDoH factors.

Time Range

2000 to 2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-29 20:42:57; freshness should be verified.