Published in Spine (Phila Pa 1976) on March 15, 2009
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Exercise prescription for chronic back or neck pain: who prescribes it? who gets it? What is prescribed? Arthritis Rheum (2009) 0.87
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Association of self-efficacy and outcome expectations with physical activity in adults with arthritis. Arthritis (2013) 0.86
Medical skepticism and the use of complementary and alternative health care providers by patients followed by rheumatologists. J Clin Rheumatol (2008) 0.86
A spatial analysis of county-level variation in hospitalization rates for low back problems in North Carolina. Soc Sci Med (2003) 0.86
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Increasing time costs and copayments for prescription drugs: an analysis of policy changes in a complex environment. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.84
Decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in the use of postacute rehabilitation care. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.84
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Self-reported recall and daily diary-recorded measures of weight monitoring adherence: associations with heart failure-related hospitalization. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2014) 0.83
Comparative effectiveness research: opportunities and challenges for physical therapy. Phys Ther (2010) 0.83
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