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Diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints in adults--an evidence-based approach: introduction.

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This project developed evidence-based diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints for use by doctors of chiropractic and other primary health care professionals to help avoid unnecessary radiographs, increase examination precision, and decrease health care costs without compromising the quality of care.
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This article is published in Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.The article was published on 2007-11-01. It has received 42 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chiropractic & Health care.

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The effectiveness of diagnostic tests for the assessment of shoulder pain due to soft tissue disorders

TL;DR: The results suggest that clinical examination by specialists can rule out the presence of a rotator cuff tear, and that either MRI or ultrasound could equally be used for detection of full-thickness rotators cuff tears, although ultrasound may be better at picking up partial tears.
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Magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance arthrography and ultrasonography for assessing rotator cuff tears in people with shoulder pain for whom surgery is being considered

TL;DR: Compared with previous studies, there were no statistically significant differences in sensitivity or specificity between MRI and US for detecting any rotator cuff tears, or for detecting partial thickness tears, and the methodological quality of the studies was judged to be low or unclear.
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Appraisal Tools for Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Systematic Review

TL;DR: Most guideline appraisal tools assess whether the literature search and the evaluation, synthesis and presentation of the evidence in guidelines follow the principles of evidence-based medicine.
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Identifying factors likely to influence compliance with diagnostic imaging guideline recommendations for spine disorders among chiropractors in North America: a focus group study using the Theoretical Domains Framework

TL;DR: Chiropractors’ use of diagnostic imaging appears to be influenced by a number of factors and five key domains may be important considering the presence of conflicting beliefs, evidence of strong beliefs likely to impact the behavior of interest, and high frequency of beliefs.
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Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

TL;DR: The results indicated that feedback may be more effective when baseline performance is low, the source is a supervisor or colleague, it is provided more than once, and the role of context and the targeted clinical behaviour was assessed.
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Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine

TL;DR: Clinical Epidemiology is a book dedicated to H.L. Mencken, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Douglas Adams, and the Emperor's New Clothes and Physicians and others who wish to recognize key clinical epidemiologic features of the diagnosis and management of patients will benefit from reading.
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Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions

TL;DR: The burden of four major musculoskeletal conditions: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and low back pain, which affects nearly everyone at some point in time and about 4-33% of the population at any given point is described.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

TL;DR: Without a way of critically appraising the information they receive, clinicians are relatively helpless in deciding what new information to learn and decide how to modify their practice.
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Randomized, controlled trials, observational studies, and the hierarchy of research designs.

TL;DR: The results of well-designed observational studies (with either a cohort or a case-control design) do not systematically overestimate the magnitude of the effects of treatment as compared with those in randomized, controlled trials on the same topic.
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