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Chiropractic as a profession
Who uses chiropractic?
Interprofessional collaboration/care
Issues in chiropractic
Economic factors
Neck pain
Back pain
In the clinic
Sports chiropractic
Practice guidelines
Continuing health education
Evidence-based health care
Knowledge Translation
Writing for publication
Journal Impact Factor

Chiropractic as a profession
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Murphy DR, Schneider MJ, Seaman DR, Perle SM, Nelson CF. How can chiropractic become a respected mainstream profession? The example of podiatry. Chiropr Osteopat 2008 Aug 29;16:10. PubMed Record
Evans MW Jr, Rupert R. The Council on Chiropractic Education’s new wellness standard: A call to action for the chiropractic profession. Chiropr Osteopat 2006 Oct 12;14:23. PubMed Record
Nelson CF, Lawrence DJ, Triano JJ, Bronfort G, Perle SM, Metz RD, Hegetschweiler K, LaBrot T. Chiropractic as spine care: A model for the profession. Chiropr Osteopat 2005 Jul 6;13:9. PubMed Record
Meeker WC, Haldeman S. Chiropractic: a profession at the crossroads of mainstream and alternative medicine. Ann Intern Med 2002 Feb 5;136(3):216-27. PubMed Record
Pettman E. A history of manipulative therapy. J Man Manip Ther 2007;15(3):165-74. PubMed Record

Who uses chiropractic?
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Blum C, Globe G, Terre L, Mirtz TA, Greene L, Globe D. Multinational survey of chiropractic patients: Reasons for seeking care. JCCA: J Can Chiropr Assoc 2008 August;52(3):175-84. PubMed Record
Hurwitz EL, Chiang LM. A comparative analysis of chiropractic and general practitioner patients in North America: Findings from the joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, 2002-03. BMC Health Serv Res 2006 April 6;6:49. PubMed Record
Xue CC, Zhang AL, Lin V, Myers R, Polus B, Story DF. Acupuncture, chiropractic and osteopathy use in Australia: A national population survey. BMC Public Health 2008 Apr 1;8:105. PubMed Record

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Interprofessional collaboration/care

Adams J, Hollenberg D, Lui C-W, Broom A. Commentary. Contextualizing integration: A critical social science approach to integrative health care. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009;32(9):792-8.
Baxter SK, Brumfitt SM. Professional differences in interprofessional working. J Interprof Care 2008 Jun;22(3):239-51. PubMed Record
Boon HS, Mior SA, Barnsley J, Ashbury FD, Haig R. The difference between integration and collaboration in patient care: Results from key informant interviews working in multiprofessional health care teams. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 November;32(9):715-22.
Branson RA. Hospital-based chiropractic integration within a large private hospital system in Minnesota: A 10-year example. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 November;32(9):740-8.
Demiris G, Washington K, Oliver DP, Wittenberg-Lyles E. A study of information flow in hospice interdisciplinary team meetings. J Interprof Care 2008
Dec;22(6):621-9. PubMed Record
Hoffman SJ, Harris A, Rosenfield D. Why mentorship matters: Students, staff and sustainability in interprofessional education. J Interprof Care 2008 Jan;22(1):103-5. PubMed Record
Johnson C. Health care transitions: A review of integrated, integrative, and integration concepts [editorial]. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 November;32(9):703-13.
Karim R, Ross C. Commentary. Interprofessional education (IPE) and chiropractic. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2008 June;52(2):76-8.
Keenan DJ, Baskerville NB. Collaborative health care: How chiropractors began working in a community health centre in Ottawa. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2005 March;49(1):13-20.
Kopansky-Giles D, Vernon H, Boon H, Steiman I, Kelly M, Kachan N. Inclusion of a CAM therapy (chiropractic care) for the management of musculoskeletal pain in an integrative, inner city, hospital-based primary care setting. Journal of Alternative Medicine 2010; 2 (1): 61-74.
Lehman JJ, Suozzi PJ. Commentary. Founding integrative medicine centers of excellence: One strategy for chiropractic medicine to build higher cultural authority. J Chiropr Educ 2008;22(1):29-33.
Luke R, Solomon P, Baptiste S, Hall P, Orchard C, Rukholm E, Carter L. Online interprofessional health sciences education: From theory to practice. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009 Summer;29(3):161-7. PubMed Record
Poole G, Egan JP, Iqbal I. Innovation in collaborative health research training: The role of active learning. J Interprof Care 2009 Mar;23(2):148-55. PubMed Record
Reeves S. An overview of continuing interprofessional education. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009 Summer;29(3):142-6. PubMed Record
Steiman I. Commentary. From multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary – It’s all about patient outcomes. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2007 December;51(4):247-8.
Winterstein J. Intraprofessional concerns. J Chiropr Med 2002 December;1(4):171-4.

Issues in chiropractic

Cassidy JD, Boyle E, Côté P, Yaohua H, Hogg-Johnson S, Silver FL, Bondy SJ. Risk of vertebrobasilar stroke and chiropractic care: Results of a population-based case-control and case-crossover study. European Spine Journal 2008 April; 17(Suppl 1): 176-183. IEBC Review
Haneline MT, Rosner AL. The etiology of cervical artery dissection. J Chiropr Med 2007 Sep;6(3):110-120.
Huijbregts PA. Chiropractic legal challenges to the physical therapy scope of practice: Anybody else taking the ethical high ground? J Man Manip Ther 2007;15(2):69-80. PubMed Record
Keating JC Jr, Charlton KH, Grod JP, Perle SM, Sikorski D, Winterstein JF. Subluxation: dogma or science? Chiropr Osteopat 2005 Aug 10;13:17. PubMed Record
Rothwell DM, Bondy SJ, Williams JI. Chiropractic manipulation and stroke: A population-based case-control study. Stroke 2001 May;32(5):1054-60. PubMed Record

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Economic factors
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Legorreta AP, Metz RD, Nelson CF, Ray S, Chernicoff HO, Dinubile NA. Comparative analysis of individuals with and without chiropractic coverage: Patient characteristics, utilization, and costs. Arch Intern Med 2004 Oct 11;164(18):1985-92. PubMed Record

Neck pain
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Neck Pain and the Decade of the Bone and Joint 2000-2010. First published in Spine; February 15, 2008; 33 (Suppl 4). Republished in European Spine Journal ; (Suppl 1); April 2008 [available free through PubMed Central] PubMed Records for J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 Feb;32(2 Suppl) View ICL records, with abstracts, PubMed and PubMed Central links.
Vernon H, Humphreys BK. Chronic mechanical neck pain in adults treated by manual therapy: a systematic review of change scores in randomized controlled trials of a single session. J Man Manip Ther 2008;16(2):E42-52. PubMed Record
Hurwitz EL, Morgenstern H, Harber P, Kominski GF, Yu F, Adams AH. A randomized trial of chiropractic manipulation and mobilization for patients with neck pain: Clinical outcomes from the UCLA neck-pain study. Am J Public Health 2002 Oct;92(10):1634-41. PubMed Record

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Back pain
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Ammendolia C, Cassidy D, Steenstra I, Soklaridis S, Boyle E, Eng S, Hamer H, Bains B, Coté P. Designing a workplace return-to-work program for occupational low back pain: An intervention mapping approach. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2009 Jun 9;10(1):65. PubMed Record
Bialosky JE, Bishop MD, Robinson ME, Zeppieri G Jr, George SZ. Spinal manipulative therapy has an immediate effect on thermal pain sensitivity in people with low back pain: A randomized controlled trial. Phys Ther 2009 Dec;89(12):1292-303. PubMed Record
Bogduk N. Management of chronic low back pain. Med J Aust 2004 Jan 19;180(2):79-83. PubMed Record
Bronfort G, Haas M, Evans R, Leininger B, Triano J. Effectiveness of manual therapies: The UK evidence report. Chiropr Osteopat 2010 Feb 25;18:3. PubMed Record
Cleland JA, Fritz JM, Childs JD, Kulig K. Comparison of the effectiveness of three manual physical therapy techniques in a subgroup of patients with low back pain who satisfy a clinical prediction rule: study protocol of a randomized clinical trial [NCT00257998]. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2006 Feb 10;7:11. PubMed Record
Hertzman-Miller RP, Morgenstern H, Hurwitz EL, Yu F, Adams AH, Harber P, Kominski GF. Comparing the satisfaction of low back pain patients randomized to receive medical or chiropractic care: results from the UCLA low-back pain study. Am J Public Health 2002 Oct;92(10):1628-33. PubMed Record
Maiers MJ, Hartvigsen J, Schulz C, Schulz K, Evans RL, Bronfort G. Chiropractic and exercise for seniors with low back pain or neck pain: The design of two randomized clinical trials. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2007 Sep 18;8:94. PubMed Record
Myers SS, Phillips RS, Davis RB, Cherkin DC, Legedza A, Kaptchuk TJ, Hrbek A, Buring JE, Post D, Connelly MT, Eisenberg DM. Patient expectations as predictors of outcome in patients with acute low back pain. J Gen Intern Med 2008 Feb;23(2):148-53. PubMed Record
Westrom KK, Maiers MJ, Evans RL, Bronfort G. Individualized chiropractic and integrative care for low back pain: The design of a randomized clinical trial using a mixed-methods approach. Trials 2010 Mar 8;11:24. PubMed Record

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In the clinic

Evans MW, Ramcharan M, Floyd R, Globe G, Ndetan H, Williams R, Ivie R. A proposed protocol for hand and table sanitizing in chiropractic clinics and education institutions. J Chiropr Med 2009; 8(1): 38-47.
Evans MW Jr, Campbell A, Husbands C, Breshears J, Ndetan H, Rupert R. Cloth-covered chiropractic treatment tables as a source of allergens and pathogenic microbes. J Chiropr Med 2008 Mar;7(1):34-8.
Evans MW Jr, Breshears J, Campbell A, Husbands C, Rupert R. Assessment and risk reduction of infectious pathogens on chiropractic treatment tables. Chiropr Osteopat 2007 Jun 7;15:8.

Continuing health education
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Lam-Antoniades M, Ratnapalan S, Tait G. Electronic continuing education in the health professions: An update on evidence from RCTs. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009 Winter;29(1):44-51. PubMed Record
Lim ECh, Oh VM, Koh DR, Seet RC. The challenges of “continuing medical education” in a pandemic era. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2009;38(8):724-3. PubMed Record
Lisi AJ. Managing conflicts of interest in continuing medical education: A comparison of policies. J Chiropr Educ 2009 Spr;23(1):36-39. PubMed Record
Continuing Medical Education: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Educational Guidelines. Chest March 2009; 135 (3 suppl) PubMed Records
Marinopoulos SS, Dorman T, Ratanawongsa N, Wilson LM, Ashar BH, Magaziner JL, Miller RG, Thomas PA, Prokopowicz GP, Qayyum R, Bass EB. Effectiveness of continuing medical education. Evid Rep Technol Assess 2007 Jan;(149):1-69.
Reeves S. An overview of continuing interprofessional education. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2009 Summer;29(3):142-6. PubMed Record
Ryan G, Lyon P, Kumar K, Bell J, Barnet S, Shaw T. Online CME: An effective alternative to face-to-face delivery. Med Teach 2007 Oct;29(8):e251-7. PubMed Record

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Evidence-based health care
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Davis J, Crabb S, Rogers E, Zamora J, Khan K. Computer-based teaching is as good as face to face lecture-based teaching of evidence based medicine: A randomized controlled trial. Med Teach 2008;30(3):302-7. PubMed Record
Direction of the Evidence [from the] Institute of Evidence-Based Chiropractic
- IEBC’s aim is the integration of science into chiropractic practice management in order to improve patient outcomes
Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992 Nov 4;268(17):2420-5. PubMed Record
Montori VM, Guyatt GH. Progress in evidence-based medicine. JAMA 2008 Oct 15;300(15):1814-6. PubMed Record
Straus S, Haynes RB. Managing evidence-based knowledge: the need for reliable, relevant and readable resources. CMAJ 2009;180: 942-945.
Torpy JM, Lynm C, Glass RM. JAMA patient page. Evidence-based medicine. JAMA 2009 Feb 25;301(8):900. PubMed Record

Knowledge Translation

Cordero C, Delino R, Jeyaseelan L, Lansang MA, Lozano JM, Kumar S, Moreno S, Pietersen M, Quirino J, Thamlikitkul V, Welch VA, Tetroe J, Ter Kuile A, Graham ID, Grimshaw J, Neufeld V, Wells G, Tugwell P. Funding agencies in low- and middle-income countries: Support for knowledge translation. Bull World Health Organ 2008 Jul;86(7):524-34. PubMed Record
Graham ID, Logan J, Harrison MB, Straus SE, Tetroe J, Caswell W, Robinson N. Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? J Contin Educ Health Prof 2006 Winter;26(1):13-24. PubMed Record
Kerner JF. Knowledge translation versus knowledge integration: A “funder’s” perspective. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2006 Winter;26(1):72-80. PubMed Record
Pablos-Mendez A, Chunharas S, Lansang MA, Shademani R, Tugwell P. Knowledge translation in global health. Bull World Health Organ 2005 Oct;83(10):723. PubMed Record
Reitmanova S. Knowledge translation in health research: A novel approach to health sciences education. Med Educ Online [serial online] 2009;14:10.
Straus SE, Graham ID, Mazmanian PE. Knowledge translation: Resolving the confusion [editorial]. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2006 Winter;26(1):3-4. PubMed Record
Tugwell P, Robinson V, Grimshaw J, Santesso N. Systematic reviews and knowledge translation. Bull World Health Organ 2006 Aug;84(8):643-51. PubMed Record

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Writing for publication

Johnson C, Green B. Submitting manuscripts to biomedical journals: Common errors and helpful solutions. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2009 Jan;32(1):1-12.
Green BN, Johnson CD. How to write a case report for publication. J Chiropr Med 2006; 5(2):72-82.
Green BM, Johnson CD, Adams A. Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: Secrets of the trade. J Chiropr Med 2006 Fall;5(3):101-117.

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