What are well-accepted guidelines for treating lower back

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Evidence-Based Medicine and Accountable Care Organization Performance: Lower Back Pain

Sally Campion, the manager of Vincent Valley Health's (VVH) accountable care organization (ACO), has just completed a cost analysis of its members with lower back pain. Based on comparative data, she felt her ACO's costs were too high-especially for surgical services. However, this analysis project was one of her first that directly confronted practice variation. She knew that many physicians on her medical staff had different clinical judgments about the most appropriate treatments for back pain. As a result, she formed a team to perform a deeper analysis of her data and examine all treatment options before beginning a project to deliver the most cost-effective, high-quality care.

Her team consisted of Dr. Ira Moscone, chief medical officer; Dr. Robert Munsey, chief of family medicine; Phyllis Colson, nursing director for surgery; and Sameer Inanpudi, director of business intelligence.

Issues she felt needed research included the following:

What are well-accepted guidelines for treating lower back pain from nationally respected sources such as the Cochrane Institute, or peer-reviewed articles in Pub Med?

Use APA (American Psychological Association, 7th Edition) style for all written assignments and assessments. Use proper citations of the articles when you make your recommendations, and include all articles cited in the reference section.

Reference no: EM133562149

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