Comparison of clinical vignettes and standardized patients as measures of physiotherapists' activity and work recommendations in patients with non-specific low back pain

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 85-94

  Brunner, Emanuel ^a,b,c   Probst, Michel ^b   Meichtry, André ^a   Luomajoki, Hannu ^a   Dankaerts, Wim ^b  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Kantonsspital Winterthur (KSW)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

clinical vignettes; Low back pain; physiotherapy; standardized patients; validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BELGIUM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARDS; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BELGIUM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPISTS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SWITZERLAND; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949637729     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: 14770873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269215515570499     Document Type: Article

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