Governing healthcare: Finding meaning in a clinical practice guideline for the management of non-specific low back pain

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-145

  Wilson, Nicky ^a   Pope, Catherine ^a   Roberts, Lisa ^a   Crouch, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary work; Discourse; Guidelines; Interpretive policy analysis; Low back pain; NICE; UK

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY-WORK; DISCOURSE; GUIDELINES; INTERPRETIVE POLICY ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; NICE; UK;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; POLITICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84894265127     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.055     Document Type: Article

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