Clinical decision rules, spinal pain classification and prediction of treatment outcome: A discussion of recent reports in the rehabilitation literature

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hebert, Jeffrey J ^a   Fritz, Julie M ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Clinical decision making; Clinical prediction rule; Diagnosis; Low back pain; Neck pain

Indexed keywords

CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION RESEARCH; SPINAL PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84864370787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2045709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-709X-20-19     Document Type: Note

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