2012-05-24T14:56:27Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/chiropractic.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070628.html Dec 31, 2006 Dec 31, 2006

<p>In a key note speech at the 2006 Canadian National Chiropractic Convention held in Vancouver BC, the author discusses the challenge for Canadian chiropractic as a profession. There has always been a strong element of diversity within the profession.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050213.html Dec 31, 2004 Dec 31, 2004

<p>Barriers to providing mental health services</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040007.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>This chapter defines what is meant by a health encounter, and discusses methodological issues and main findings of qualitative research into the chiropractic health encounter.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040006.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>Chiropractic was thought to be unique in being both professional (sharing the characteristics of a profession), but also being socially stigmatized at the same time. The objective of this paper includes defining professionalism, explaining the differences between professionalism and ethics, identifing professional boundary issues in chiropractic, describing how far the chiropractic profession has come.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040022.html Dec 31, 2003 Dec 31, 2003

<p>This chapter presents different views of chiropractic and then explores the basis of the differences.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020001.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

<p>These data support the theory that patients seek chiropractic care almost exclusively for musculoskeletal symptoms and that chiropractors and their patients share a similar belief system.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020038.html Dec 31, 2001 Dec 31, 2001

<p>Chiropractic services are the most frequently used of the complementary and alternative medicine approaches.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20001208.html Dec 31, 1999 Dec 31, 1999

<p>This study produced 10 items that are compatible with the CAHPS core items and are recommended for inclusion as supplemental CAHPS survey items.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980605.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

<p>During the last 30 years much work has been done in the health professions to understand and teach clinical decision making.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19981007.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

<p>Chiropractors have become the third largest group of health professionals in the United States (after physicians and dentists) who have primary contact with patients. In the last decade of the 20th century, chiropractic has begun to shed its status as a marginal approach to care and is becoming more mainstream. At this juncture, it seems appropriate to ask what the role of chiropractic should be in health care.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980310.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

<p>This article reports on two studies of the appropriateness of manipulation conducted at RAND using systematic literature reviews and expert panels.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980703.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

<p>The report concludes that the proportion of chiropractic spinal manipulation judged to be congruent with appropriateness criteria is similar to proportions previously described for medical procedures; thus, the findings provide some reassurance about the appropriate application of chiropractic care.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980905.html Dec 31, 1997 Dec 31, 1997

<p>Chiropractic and allopathic medicine differ the greatest in clinical practice, which in medical school far exceeds that in chiropractic school. The therapies that chiropractic and medical students learn are distinct from one another, and the settings in which students receive clinical training are different and isolated from one another.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19970033.html Dec 31, 1996 Dec 31, 1996

<p>Reports the results of an effort that drew upon available literature on the chiropractic profession.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960009.html Dec 31, 1995 Dec 31, 1995

<p>Discusses chiropractic approaches to wellness and healing, and points to increasing evidence that the chiropractic is involved in wellness care. However, what is missing from this involvement in wellness care are good outcome studies of wellness interventions by chiropractors. Obtaining this evidence will require acceptance of a new research paradigm, one that moves beyond traditional empiricist methods to grounded, qualitative research whose purpose is discovery and understanding and not necessarily explanation.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960056.html Dec 31, 1995 Dec 31, 1995

<p>Based on data collected from about 500 chiropractic patients and 44 chiropractors in the Los Angeles area, this article examines the chiropractor's role in the changing health care system. The authors found that the most frequent recommendations of chiropractors are most directly relevant to the complaints of back-related problems, rather than to general health and preventive care.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19940403.html Dec 31, 1993 Dec 31, 1993

<p>There has been increasing interest in the use of spinal manipulation, which has been reported in the scientific literature and the popular media.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19940901.html Dec 31, 1993 Dec 31, 1993

<p>Clinicians are bombarded by reports of new diagnostic tests or treatments for patients with spine problems.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19930008.html Dec 31, 1992 Dec 31, 1992

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19930702.html Dec 31, 1992 Dec 31, 1992

<p>Authors commentary on concerns in the chiropractic field about appropriate educational and research paradigms. He suggests that chiropractic should examine the debates going on in the social sciences about the relevance of positivist empiricist science to social phenomenon.</p>