Congruence between decisions to initiate chiropractic spinal manipulation for low back pain and appropriateness criteria in North America

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-17

  Shekelle, Paul G ^a   Coulter, Ian ^a   Hurwitz, Eric L ^b   Genovese, Barbara ^a   Adams, Alan H ^c   Mior, Silvano A ^d   Brook, Robert H ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Los Angeles College of Chiropractic   (United States)

^d CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032125431     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-129-1-199807010-00003     Document Type: Article

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