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Correction: Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain
- Roger Chou, MD;
- Paul Shekelle, MD, PhD;
- Amir Qaseem, MD, PhD, MHA; and
- Douglas K. Owens, MD, MS
- From Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239; Veterans Affairs Health Care System and RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90407; American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA 19106; Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
The recent joint guideline by the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society on diagnosis and treatment of low back pain (1) and supporting evidence reviews (2, 3) contained several errors. In the original print version of the guideline, the target populations were described incorrectly (1). The word not was inadvertently dropped from a sentence that described populations that were excluded from the guideline. Children or adolescents with low back pain; pregnant women; and patients with low back pain from sources outside the back (nonspinal low back pain), fibromyalgia or other myofascial pain syndromes, and thoracic or cervical back pain are not covered by the guideline.
In response to an online letter to the editor (4), we re-reviewed the evidence on acetaminophen and believe we originally graded the evidence too positively in the …
