Working with Consumers to Tackle Low Back Pain

The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp) had already worked with the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Health Leadership Council, and the Center for Evidence-Based Policy at Oregon Health and Science University to develop an Oregon-specific, evidence-based guideline to help practitioners evaluate and manage low back pain. But this Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliance realized that consumers also needed some tools to help them understand low back pain and reset their expectations about safe and effective care.

Read the rest of this AF4Q Bright Spot here.

View the entire Illustrating Innovation Through Bright Spots book, produced for the May 2012 National Meeting here.