The Nordic maintenance care program: what is maintenance care? Interview based survey of Danish chiropractors
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The Nordic maintenance care program: what is maintenance care? Interview based survey of Danish chiropractors
OBJECTIVE To describe and interpret Danish Chiropractors' perspectives regarding the purpose and rationale for using MC (maintenance care), its content, course and patient characteristics. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 chiropractors identified using a stratified, theoretical sampling framework. Interviews covered four domains relating to MC, namely: purpose, patien...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2045-709X
DOI: 10.1186/2045-709x-21-27