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Is Emergency Department Care for Low Back Pain Meeting Contemporary Standards? A Medical Record Review

Pippa Flanagan, P. Truter, G. Machado, Kym Moiler, Rosalind Taylor, P. Atkinson, Julie Bayliss, Ivan Lin et al.

Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2026

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Abstract

In 2022, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare released clinical care standards for managing low back pain (LBP), including in emergency departments (EDs), where guideline non‐adherent care has been reported. This study aimed to describe LBP care in a tertiary hospital ED against these new clinical standards.

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