Statistical significance versus clinical importance: Trials on exercise therapy for chronic low back pain as example

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1785-1790

  Van Tulder, Maurits ^a,b,d   Malmivaara, Antti ^c   Hayden, Jill ^d   Koes, Bart ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical importance; Low back pain; Randomized controlled trials; Statistical significance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERAPY EFFECT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447539828     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3180b9ef49     Document Type: Article

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