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Research type:

Primary Research (e.g. trial) 

Title (lead author) etc:

A multicentred randomised controlled trial of a primary-care based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain. The Back Skills Training (BeST) trial  (Lamb) 281 pages, Volume 14, number 41

DOI

10.3310/hta14410
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Headline:

Study found that group-based cognitive behavioural therapy of subacute and chronic low back pain is both clinically effective and cost-effective and could be implemented within the NHS with relative ease 

This report should be referenced as follows:

Lamb S, Lall R, Hansen Z, Castelnuovo E, Withers E, et al. A multicentred randomised controlled trial of a primary-care based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain. The Back Skills Training (BeST) trial. Health Technol Assess 2010;14(41).

Project ref:

01/75/01 

Original project title:

A multi-centred randomised controlled trial of a primary-care based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain (UK-Best) 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Sarah (Sallie) Lamb, Professor of Rehabilitation/ CTU Director, Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, The University of Warwick

Start Date:

October 2003  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

September 2010

Cost:

£1,012,948 

MeSH* index primary terms:

LOW-BACK-PAIN Q-therapy; COGNITIVE-THERAPY; FAMILY-PRACTICE (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

HUMAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; MIDDLE-AGED; AGED; MULTICENTER-STUDY; RANDOMIZED-CONTROLLED-TRIAL; CLINICAL-TRIAL  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

ISRCTN* number:

ISRCTN 54717854 (*International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number) 
URL of this project on the Controlled Trials Website:
http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN54717854 

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484131804 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

Project protocol (pdf format, 118 kbytes)

Printed copies of this title despatched:

198 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

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