"lovely pie in the sky plans": A qualitative study of clinicians' perspectives on guidelines for managing low back pain in primary care in England

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Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 1842-1850

  Bishop, Felicity L ^a   Dima, Alexandra L ^a,b   Ngui, Jason ^a   Little, Paul ^a   Moss Morris, Rona ^c   Foster, Nadine E ^d   Lewith, George T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical decision making; Clinical guidelines; Commissioning; Low back pain; Primary health care; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTOR; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ENGLAND; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ENGLAND; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84947781868     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001215     Document Type: Article

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