Acute Low Back Pain Guideline Clinician Survey
Why We Need Your Help
Acute low back pain (ALBP) is a common reason for people to visit a doctor. However, how clinicians assess and treat this condition can differ significantly. Before we publish the new acute low back pain guideline, funded by the FDA, we want to understand how doctors like you currently treat patients with low back pain lasting less than six weeks. Your responses will help us understand current practices and create materials that will help you and your patients. After we release the guidelines and conduct our continuing medical education (CME) for the Acute Low Back Pain Guideline, we will survey doctors again to see if practices have changed, identify successful implementation methods, and address ongoing challenges. Your feedback is essential for improving patient outcomes.
Who Should Respond?
This is a multidisciplinary guideline and seeks respondents from multiple specialties and roles.
- Pain Medicine Physicians
- Primary Care Clinicians
- Acute Pain & Regional Anesthesiology
- Anesthesiologists
- Emergency Medicine
- Interventionalists
- Neurology/Neurosurgery
- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Physical Therapists
- NPs/APRNs
- PAs
- Chiropractors
- Pain Medicine Behavioral Medicine
How We Will Use Your Information
The survey will take just a few minutes. Your answers are confidential and will only be reported in groups; no individual or organization will be identified. We will use the findings to enhance educational tools for clinicians and patients, provide guideline implementation tools, and inform publications about how well the guidelines are being implemented.
After several demographic questions, the survey contains 10 questions specific to treating Acute Low Back Pain. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.
What’s In It For You
As a thank-you, everyone who completes the survey will get free access to our 1-hour ALBP CME course (eligible for credit). This course will be available early next year, after we publish the guidelines. Your input now will help create practical, patient-centered guidance for clinicians and patients that works in everyday clinical settings. Thank you for your help!
Complete the Acute Low Back Pain Guideline Clinician Survey Today!
Click HERE and complete the form to ensure you are added to the list. AAPM will send you a confirmation email and send follow-up information as soon as the enduring content is completed and available. You can expect to receive more information once the guideline manuscript is published.
