Clinical guidelines - a tool for quality assurance of care for patients with low back pain

A serious problem in clinical medicine today is the impossibility of applying all available knowledge to a particular patient in the conditions of a continuously growing flow of information. Hence, a qualitative transition from the banal accumulation of information to the search for specific tools that make it possible to single out only constructive solutions is natural. On the one hand, many often fundamentally new methods of diagnosing and treating various diseases are constantly appearing. On the other hand, their usefulness in correct scientific analysis is not always obvious. In this regard, it is sometimes difficult for a doctor to form a single diagnostic and therapeutic concept. The basis for resolving these contradictions is the so-called evidence-based medicine, which takes into account and promotes the dissemination of only those treatment methods whose effectiveness has been proven by strictly scientific, standardized and unified statistical methods. A tool that helps the practitioner in making a clinical decision and the relevant principles of evidence-based medicine are the "Clinical guidelines" (in the English literature "Clinical guidelines"). This is a document that is compiled by a team of authors, which, as a rule, includes several dozen leading specialists in a particular field of medicine from different countries.