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We have developed a practical prognostic tool for classifying primary care back pain consulters and then delivering matched treatment pathways. The benefits of this approach were measured in terms of patient satisfaction, functional improvement and cost effectiveness.

Hill JC, Whitehurst DG, Lewis M, Bryan S, Dunn KM, Foster NE, Konstantinou K, Main CJ, Mason E, Somerville S, Sowden G, Vohora K, Hay EM. 2011. Comparison of stratified primary care management for low back pain with current best practice (STarT Back): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet - 29 October 2011 ( Vol. 378, Issue 9802, Pages 1560-1571).

Kate Dunn’s article in the Annals of Internal medicine was selected in 2010 as ‘finding of the year’ by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Health Services) of the US National Institute of Health.

Dunn KM, Saunders KW, Rutter CM, Banta-Green CJ, Merrill JO, Sullivan MD, Weisner CM, Silverberg MJ, Campbell CI, Psaty BM, Von Korff M. Opioid prescriptions for chronic pain and overdose: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2010;152(2):85-92.

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