General Practitioner Management of Shoulder Pain in Comparison with Rheumatologist Expectation of Care and Best Evidence: An Australian National Survey

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Buchbinder, Rachelle ^a   Staples, Margaret P ^a   Shanahan, E Michael ^b   Roos, Juliana F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMEROSCAPULAR PERIARTHRITIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RHEUMATOLOGIST ATTITUDE; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AUSTRALIA; BURSITIS; DATA COLLECTION; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; RHEUMATOLOGY; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER JOINT; SHOULDER PAIN;

EID: 84876183650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061243     Document Type: Article

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