Creating a multidisciplinary low back pain guideline: Anatomy of a guideline adaptation process

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 693-704

  Harstall, Christa ^a   Taenzer, Paul ^b   Angus, Donna K ^c   Moga, Carmen ^a   Schuller, Tara ^d   Scott, N Ann ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^c Alberta Innovates Health Solutions   (Canada)

^d Charis Management Consulting Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

clinical practice guidelines; evidence based medicine; health services research; low back pain; primary health care; quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LOW BACK PAIN; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 79961071825     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01420.x     Document Type: Article

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