[Evidence-based back pain care--a pilot study of continuous medical education].
BACKGROUND
Evidence-based practice guidelines on back pain give recommendations on appropriate care in order to improve patient outcomes. One strategy used to implement practice guidelines is continuous medical education (CME).


METHODS
Junior doctors working in a primary care emergency reception attended a CME programme with a lecture on back pain, a booklet on evidence-based back pain care and one day traineeship with a specialist working at a back pain clinic. Three to six months later the participants answered a questionnaire evaluating the programme.


RESULTS
Ten out of the eleven participants answered the questionnaire. They felt that the CME programme had affected their professional practice; one in two thought that their practice still deviated from evidence-based recommendations, mostly because patients wanted faster interventions than the recommendations call for.


CONCLUSIONS
Initiatives to implement evidence-based back pain care should focus on the important deviations from recommended care and specifically seek to affect barriers that maintain such practice.
D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011364:Professional Practice; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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