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• Hill JC, Dunn KM, Lewis M, Mullis R, Main CJ, Foster NE, et al. A primary care back pain screening tool: identifying patient subgroups for initial treatment. Arthritis Rheum 2008;59(5):632–41
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.23563/abstract

• Jonathan C. Hill *, Kate M. Dunn, Chris J. Main, Elaine M. Hay. Subgrouping low back pain: A comparison of the STarT Back Tool with the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire. Eur J. Pain 2009; doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2009.01.003
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.ejpain.2009.01.003/abstract

• E Hay, K Dunn, J Hill, M Lewis, E Mason, K Konstantinou, G Sowden, S Somerville, K Vohora, D Whitehurst and C Main. A randomised clinical trial of subgrouping and targeted treatment for low back pain compared with best current care. The STarT Back Trial Study Protocol . BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders April 2008, 9:58
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2474/9/58

• The Spanish translation of the tool now has been accepted for publication:
  Gusi N, Del Pozo-Cruz B, Olivares PR, Hernandez-Mocholi M, Hill JC. The Spanish version of the “STarT Back Screening Tool” (SBST) in different subgroups. Aten Primaria 2010 (epub ahead)

• Hill JC. The early identification of patients with complex back pain problems. The Back Care Journal. Spring 2010.
  http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1ns0p/BackCareSpring2010/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F164377%2FBackCare-Spring-2010

• Hill JC, Fritz JM. Psychosocial influences on low back pain, disability, and response to treatment. Phys Ther. 2011;91:712–721
  http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/91/5/712.abstract

• Fritz JM, Beneciuk JM, George SZ. Relationship between categorization with the STarT Back Screening Tool and prognosis for people receiving physical therapy for low back pain. Phys Ther. 2011;91:722–732
  http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/91/5/722

• Hill et al. Comparing the STarT Back Screening Tool's Subgroup Allocation of Individual Patients With That of Independent Clinical Experts.Clinical Journal of Pain: 2010 - Volume 26 - Issue 9 - pp 783-787
  http://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=11000&article=00008&type=abstract

• Fritz JM, Beneciuk JM, George SZ. Relationship between categorization with the STarT Back Screening Tool and prognosis for people receiving physical therapy for low back pain. Phys Ther 2011;91:722–732. http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/91/5/722

• Hill J, DGT Whitehurst, Lewis M, et al. A randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of stratified primary care management for low back pain compared with current best practice: The STarT Back trial [ISRCTN37113406]. Lancet 2011 (In press).

• Sowden G, Hill JC, Konstantinou K, Khanna M, Main C, Salmon P, Somerville S, Wathall S, Foster N. Subgrouping for targeted treatment in primary care for low back pain: the treatment system and clinical training programmes used in the IMPaCT Back study (ISRCTN 55174281) Family Practice 2011 (Online ahead of print) http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/27/fampra.cmr037.full.pdf+html

• Main C, Hill J, Sowden G and Watson P. Integrating physical and psychosocial approaches to treatment in low back pain. The development and content of the Keele STarT Back trial's "high risk" intervention (StarTBack; ISRCTN 37113406). Physiotherapy 2011 (Online ahead of print) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031940611004202

• C Main & S George. Psychologically informed practice for management of low back pain: future directions in practice and research. Physical Therapy 2011. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21451091

• N Foster & A Delitto. Embedding Psychosocial Perspectives Within Clinical Management of Low Back Pain: Integration of Psychosocial Informed Management Principles into Physical Therapist Practice - Challenges and Opportunities. Physical Therapy 2011. http://ptjournal.apta.org/content/91/5/790

• Kongsted A, Johannesen E, Leboeuf-Yde C. Feasibility of the STarT Back Screening Tool in chiropractic clinics: A cross-sectional study of patients with low back pain. Chiropr Man Therap. 2011;19(1):10.

• Morsø L, Albert H, Kent P, Manniche C, Hill J. Translation and discriminative validation of the STarT Back Screening Tool into Danish. Eur Spine J. 2011 Dec;20(12):2166-73. Epub 2011 Jul 19. http://www.springerlink.com/content/31432kpw3165p151/fulltext.pdf

• Olivier Bruyere, Maryline Demoulin, Clara Brereton, Fabienne Humblet, Daniel Flynn, Jonathan C Hill, Didier Maquet, Julien Van Beveren, Jean-Yves Reginster, Jean-Michel Crielaard and Christophe Demoulin. Archives of Public Health, 70:12 (07 Jun 2012)
  http://www.archpublichealth.com/content/70/1/12

• Whitehurst DG, Bryan S, Lewis M, Hill J, Hay EM. Exploring the cost-utility of stratified primary care management for low back pain compared with current best practice within risk-defined subgroups. Ann Rheum Dis 2012; 71(11): 1796-802.

• Foster NE, Mullis R, Young J, Doyle C, Lewis M, Whitehurst D, Hay EM; IMPaCT Back Study team. IMPaCT Back study protocol. Implementation of subgrouping for targeted treatment systems for low back pain patients in primary care: a prospective population-based sequential comparison. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2010; 20(11): 186.

• del Pozo-Cruz B, Parraca JA, del Pozo-Cruz J, Adsuar JC, Hill JC, Gusi N. 2012. AN OCCUPATIONAL, INTERNET-BASED INTERVENTION TO PREVENT CHRONICITY IN SUBACUTE LOWER BACK PAIN: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL. JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION MEDICINE, vol. 44(7), 581-587. link> doi>

• Hill JC, Foster NE, Hay EM. 2010. Cognitive behavioural therapy shown to be an effective and low cost treatment for subacute and chronic low-back pain, improving pain and disability scores in a pragmatic RCT. Evid Based Med, vol. 15(4), 118-119. link> doi>

• Field J, Newell D. Relationship between STarT Back Screening Tool and prognosis for low back pain patients receiving spinal manipulative therapy. Chiropr Man Therap. 2012 Jun 12;20(1):17. doi: 10.1186/2045-709X-20-17.

• Beneciuk JM, Bishop MD, Fritz JM, Robinson ME, Asal NR, Nisenzon AN, George SZ. The STarT Back Screening Tool and Individual Psychological Measures: Evaluation of Prognostic Capabilities for Low Back Pain Clinical Outcomes in Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings. Phys Ther. 2012 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print]

• Alice Kongsted, Else Johannesen and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde. Feasibility of the STarT back screening tool in chiropractic clinics: a cross-sectional study of patients with low back pain. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2011, 19:10 doi:10.1186/2045-709X-19-10

• Wideman TH, Hill JC, Main CJ, Lewis M, Sullivan MJ, Hay EM. Comparing the responsiveness of a brief, multidimensional risk screening tool for back pain to its unidimensional reference standards: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Pain. 2012 Nov;153(11):2182-91. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.06.010. Epub 2012 Jul 15.

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