Clinical Practice Guidelines for Neck and Low Back Pain in Outpatient Physical Therapy

The Study team will use several methods from the implementation strategy taxonomy of the Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) classification system to improve our likelihood for successful neck and low back pain implementation consisting of: 1) educational materials, workshops and outreach visits from trainers; 2) external consultant testimonials; 3) iterative quality improvement processes (including ongoing analysis of clinician feedback to improve process); 4) routine collection of patient reported outcomes to engage discussion among clinician groups and outpatient division leaders) and 5) local organization consensus process (including feedback from key outpatient division stakeholders).

Considering the stepped wedge design with a 12-week washout phase, clinics will be providing standard physical therapy prior to receiving clinical practice guideline training.