OA11.01. Integrative care for the management of low back pain: design of a clinical care pathway
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Purpose For the treatment of chronic back pain, it has been theorized that integrative care plans can lead to better outcomes than those achieved by monodisciplinary care alone, especially when using a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and non-hierarchical team approach. This paper describes the development and implementation of a care pathway designed to guide treatment by an integrative group of providers within a randomized controlled trial.
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