The effectiveness of scoliosis screening programs: Methods for systematic review and expert panel recommendations formulation

Scoliosis

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Beauséjour, Marie ^a,b   Goulet, Lise ^b   Parent, Stefan ^a,b   Feldman, Debbie Ehrmann ^b   Turgeon, Isabelle ^a   Roy Beaudry, Marjolaine ^a   Sosa, Jose Felix ^a   Labelle, Hubert ^a,b   Braun, John ^c   Grimard, Guy ^c   Langlois, Gaétan ^c   Mac Thiong, Jean Marc ^c   Mercier, Pierre ^c   Poitras, Benoit ^c   Sanders, James ^c   Théorêt, Chantal ^c   Allen, Lauren ^c   El Hawary, Ron ^c   Hedden, Douglas ^c   Howard, Jason ^c   Jarvis, James ^c   Lewis, Stephen ^c   Missuina, Paul ^c   Zeller, Reinhard ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adolescent; Mass screening; Program evaluation; Scoliosis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SCOLIOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 84880355375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-8-12     Document Type: Article

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