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Antibiotic treatment for low back pain, radicular pain, or both
Liu C, Abdel Shaheed C, Braten LC, Hancock MJ, Underwood M, Jarvik JG, Elliott J, Maher CG, Zhao S, Lyu M, Johnston RV, Buchbinder R, Lin CC. Antibiotic treatment for low back pain, radicular pain, or both. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2026 Apr 7;4(4):CD014221. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD014221.pub2. PMID: 41944232; PMCID: PMC13054928.
Effectiveness of a virtual hospital model of care for patients with low back pain presenting to emergency departments (Back@Home)
Sigera C, Oliveira CB, Melman A, Teng MJ, Coombs DM, Billot L, Gianacas C, Kabir A, Rogan E, Marabani M, Hutchings O, Maher CG, Machado GC; Back@Home Investigators
Implementation of a Self-Management Approach for Low Back Pain in a Public Health Care System
Feldman R, Pincus T, Reges O, Gorelik A, Buchbinder R, Ben Ami N.
Development of an internationally agreed national minimum dataset for low back pain: a modified Delphi study
McKenzie BJ, Ferreira GE, Haas R, Gorelik A, Maher CG, Buchbinder R; International Low Back Pain Minimum Dataset Delphi Panel.
‘Overhaul Medicare and perhaps train us better’: a qualitative study of primary care general practitioners’ perspectives on how to implement the low back pain clinical care standards
Costa N, Lin CC, Blyth F, Huckel-Schneider C, Buchbinder R, Gnjidic D, Langford A, O'Connor D, Schneider C, French S.
Effect of a Walking Plus Education Program on the Duration and Severity of Recurrences of Low Back Pain: A Secondary Exploratory Analysis of the WalkBack Trial
Pocovi NC, Graham PL, Adelaide A, Pisharody G, Lin CC, French SD, Maher CG, van Dongen JM, Latimer J, Merom D, Tiedemann A, Tong SYK, Hancock MJ.
People Strongly Value Physical Therapies for Low Back Pain Over Doing Nothing, Even When Effects Are Very Small: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Longtin C, Salisbury A, Maher CG, Sharma S, Nickel B, Lung T, Ferreira G, Abdel Shaheed C, Furmage AM, Tousignant-Laflamme Y, Traeger AC.
Productivity Losses Due to Long-Term Back Problems in Working-Age Australians
Docking SI, Ackerman IN, Buchbinder R, Zomer E, Liew D, Ademi Z.
Prevalence of non-communicable diseases, multimorbidity, and their impact on activity limitations among adults with chronic back pain: a national population-based study in a middle-income country
Ferreira ÉMR, Lemes ÍR, Ribeiro EG, Malta DC, Maher CG, McAuley JH, Jones MD, Hespanhol L, Pinto RZ.
One-page patient fact sheets for low back pain in primary care: A randomized clinical trial.
Christian Longtin, Jeremy R. Chang, Jolyn Hersch, Sweekriti Sharma, Michael C. Ferraro, Rodrigo R. N. Rizzo, Jennifer McBride, Arnold Y. L. Wong, Chris G. Maher, Michelle Guppy, James H. McAuley & Adrian C. Traeger.
Agreement between high-quality clinical practice guidelines in their treatment recommendations for low back pain: a systematic review
McKenzie BJ, Haas R, Ferreira GE, Gorelik A, Cyril S, Han JX, Gilbert S, Grobler L, Maher CG, Buchbinder R.
Prevalence of serious spinal pathologies and nonspinal conditions in low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Reginato LS, Machado GC, Maher CG, Grande GHD, Vidal RVC, Oliveira CB
Evaluating the effect of incentives on recruiting people with low back pain with limited English proficiency as part of the COMFORT cluster RCT: a study protocol for a study within a trial
Vizza L, Maher CG, Ivers R, McLachlan AJ, Kelly PJ, Blyth F, Clare PJ, Thompson R, Lung T, Degenhardt L, Reid S, Martin BC, Wright M, Osman R, French SD, McCaffery KJ, Campbell G, Jenkins HJ, Mathieson S, Boogs M, McMaugh J, Bennett C, Stanaway F, Abdel Shaheed C.
Long-term effectiveness of non-surgical interventions for chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Jenkins HJ, Corrêa L, Brown BT, Ferreira GE, Nim C, Aspinall SL, Wareham D, Choi J, Maher CG, Hancock MJ.
How Much Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, and Osteopathy Care Do Compensated Australian Workers with Low Back Pain Receive? A Retrospective Cohort Study
Di Donato M, Gray S, Sheehan LR, Buchbinder R, Iles R, Collie A.
The smallest worthwhile effect of surgery versus non-surgical treatments for sciatica: a benefit-harm trade-off study
Ali Salame, Manuela L Ferreira, Harrison J Hansford, Chris G Maher, Joshua R Zadro, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Ashish Diwan, James H McAuley, Mark J Hancock, Ian A Harris & Giovanni E Ferreira.
Models of care for managing non‐specific low back pain
Sean Docking, Shivadharshini Sridhar, Romi Haas, Kevin Mao, Helen Ramsay, Rachelle Buchbinder & Denise O'Connor.
Prevalence of low back pain in Nepal: Results from a nationally representative WHO STEPS survey
Sweekriti Sharma, Adrian C. Traeger, Chris G. Maher, Bihungum Bista, Meghnath Dhimal, Lonim P. Dixit & Saurab Sharma.
Cost savings of reducing opioid prescribing for the treatment of people with low back pain in general practice: a modelling study
Anagha Killedar, Romi Haas, Alexandra Gorelik, Sean Docking, Rachelle Buchbinder, Chris G. Maher, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Alison Hayes,
Development of a patient decision aid for people with chronic low back pain and degenerative disc disease considering lumbar fusion: A mixed-methods study
Yesung Cho, Marnee J. McKay, Joshua R. Zadro, Tammy Hoffmann, Chris G. Maher, Ian Harris, Ralph Stanford, Manuela L. Ferreira, Rachelle Buchbinder, Christopher S. Han, Giovanni E. Ferreira.