Is It Reasonable to Use an Individual Patient's Progress After Treatment as a Guide to Ongoing Clinical Reasoning?

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 396-403

  Tuttle, Neil ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Evidence based Medicine; Exercise Therapy; Musculoskeletal Manipulations; Osteopathic Medicine; Physical Therapy (Specialty)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANGE OF MOTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 66949175465     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2009.04.002     Document Type: Note

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