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Deadline opleidingsproject aanvragen

april 21, 2023april 21, 2023 door Tom Michielsenin Uncategorized

De half jaarlijkse deadline van 15 mei voor nieuwe opleiding aanvragen in onderzoek komt snel dichterbij. Aanvragen kunnen verstuurd worden naar info@dbric.eu. Applicatie formulieren zijn te vinden op deze website.

DBRIC board geeft beurs aan project Annemarie de Zoete

februari 10, 2023februari 10, 2023 door Tom Michielsenin Uncategorized

Tijdens zijn 6 maandelijkse vergadering, heeft de DBRIC board een beurs toegekend aan de subsidie aanvraag van Annemarie de Zoete. Een beurs van € 31.149 werd toegewezen.

Title: Would the results from our earlier IPD meta-analysis on spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain have been different if we had conducted a responder analysis?

Project team: Annemarie de Zoete, Michiel de Boer, Raymond Ostelo, Sidney Rubinstein

Content:

Low back pain is a common and disabling global disorder representing a great burden to the individual and society. Scientific evidence suggests that Spinal manipulation and mobilization are an effective treatment for LBP, although it is not effective for everyone.

In this current proposal we will identify patients that benefit from SMT (responders) and no those who do not benefit form SMT (non-responder). Furthermore, we will explore the characteristics of those (non) responders.

In short, it remains problematic to determine who is likely to respond to treatment. Various methodological approaches have been conducted, the most common of which focuses on mean (or average) data for the groups. This is potentially not without problems because only partly weights in those individuals who ‘respond’ to care. Other approaches have been suggested which focus on those responders to care, but these are also not without critique.

In our previous analysis with data collected from 21 randomized controlled trials (RCTs), our analysis focused on the mean (or averages) for the groups. This current proposal will focus on other approaches in order to complete the picture and may potentially allow us to identify patients that benefit from SMT (responders) and no those who do not benefit form SMT (non-responder) which had not been identified in our earlier analysis. Furthermore, we will explore the characteristics of those (non) responders using this other approach.

This proposal may benefit patients, chiropractors, and chiropractic profession by helping to identify those likely to respond to care.