• Physiother Can · Jan 2011

    Review

    The Alberta Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Ambassador Program: The Development of a Contextually Relevant, Multidisciplinary Clinical Practice Guideline for Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Review.

    • Greg Cutforth, Aaron Peter, and Paul Taenzer.
    • Greg Cutforth, PT, BScPT: Regional Manager, Allied Health Services (Jasper to Barrhead), Alberta Health Services, Hinton, Alberta.
    • Physiother Can. 2011 Jan 1; 63 (3): 278-86.

    PurposeTo describe the development of a contextually relevant multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline (CPG) for non-specific low back pain (LBP) and to discuss its value to the management of LBP and the practice of physiotherapy.MethodTo mitigate an identified knowledge gap for Alberta primary-care practitioners in the management of non-specific LBP, a collaborative process was developed to engage multidisciplinary health care providers in designing a primary-care CPG for non-specific LBP. A comprehensive review of published LBP guidelines identified the seven highest-quality CPGs; these were used to inform a multidisciplinary guideline development group (GDG) as they developed the CPG.ResultsThe GDG constructed a CPG for non-specific LBP along with point-of-care decision-support and patient-education tools.ConclusionsThe Ambassador Program on Low Back Pain worked with front-line clinicians from across Alberta to review the best available evidence in developing a CPG responsive to the Alberta context. This CPG is intervention specific and provides a wide range of primary-care practitioners with the best available evidence to inform their clinical decisions in managing non-specific LBP.

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