Designing a Back Management Service: The Exeter experience and first year results

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 354-361

  Rae, S A ^a   Smyth, j Blood ^a   Ivens, M ^a   Penney, C ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REHABILITATION CENTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; BACK PAIN; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031685212     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/026921598667097148     Document Type: Article

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