Attitudes toward chiropractic: A survey of North American orthopedic surgeons

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 2818-2825

  Busse, Jason W ^a,b   Jacobs, Craig ^c   Ngo, Trung ^c   Rodine, Robert ^c   Torrance, David ^c   Jim, Janey ^c   Kulkarni, Abhaya V ^d   Petrisor, Brad ^b   Drew, Brian ^b   Bhandari, Mohit ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude of health personnel; Chiropractic; Orthopedics; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHIROPRACTIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; ORTHOPEDICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 74249099490     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181c1512f     Document Type: Article

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