Informed consent practices of physiotherapists in the treatment of low back pain

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 654-660

  Fenety, Anne ^a   Harman, Katherine ^a   Hoens, Alison ^b,c   Bassett, Raewyn ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Providence Health Care Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embodied consent; Informed consent; Low back pain; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NOVA SCOTIA; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 70350712188     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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