Patient education and counseling
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To determine the extent of alignment between clinical outcome measures and patient-derived goals for the management of chronic low back pain (cLBP). ⋯ Clinical outcome measures may not be providing accurate information about the success of treatments that are meaningful to the patient. Clinicians should consider a collaborative approach with cLBP patients to determine treatment interventions that are driven by patient preference.
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Observer OPTION(5) was designed as a more efficient version of OPTION(12), the most commonly used measure of shared decision making (SDM). The current paper assesses the psychometric properties of OPTION(5). ⋯ OPTION(5) has potential to provide reliable, valid assessment of SDM in clinical encounters.