US chiropractors' attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice: A cross-sectional national survey

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Schneider, Michael J ^a   Evans, Roni ^b   Haas, Mitchell ^c   Leach, Matthew ^d   Hawk, Cheryl ^e   Long, Cynthia ^f   Cramer, Gregory D ^g   Walters, Oakland ^h   Vihstadt, Corrie ^b   Terhorst, Lauren ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN STATES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^f PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^h Geisinger Health Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Complementary and alternative medicine; Dissemination and implementation; Evidence based medicine; Knowledge translation; Survey research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTOR ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928802273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2045709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12998-015-0060-0     Document Type: Article

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