Prognostic factors for low back pain in patients referred for physiotherapy: comparing outcomes and varying modeling techniques.

Study Design: Data were derived from a randomized controlled trial on the (cost-) effectiveness of the implementation of the clinical guidelines on physiotherapy for low back pain in primary care.

Objectives: To describe the course of low back pain in patients who are referred to physiotherapy, to identify clinically important prognostic factors on different outcomes, and to evaluate the influence of different statistical techniques in developing a prognostic model.

Summary Of Background Data: Several studies have aimed to identify prognostic factors for low back pain in primary care.

Development of an implementation strategy for physiotherapy guidelines on low back pain.

In the Netherlands, clinical practice physiotherapy guidelines are mainly implemented by using passive implementation strategies. It is well known that these strategies are not effective in establishing changes in behaviour of health care professionals. Therefore, a new implementation strategy was developed for the physiotherapy guidelines on low back pain.

Disseminating and implementing the results of back pain research in primary care.

Study Design: Description of a workshop entitled "Implementation and Dissemination: Getting Research into Practice," that was held at the Fourth International Forum on Low Back Pain Research in Primary Care, in Israel in March 2000.

Summary Of Background Data: A gap exists between research endeavors and the dissemination and implementation of new research findings.

Objectives: To describe the outcomes of a workshop on implementation and dissemination of research findings.