Evidence based Clinical Guidelines Project

These guidelines were retired January 14, 2016. HERC will continue to maintain coverage guidances on these topics. For details, see our coverage guidances page.

Retired Guidelines

The Office of Oregon Health Policy and Research, in collaboration partners such as the Oregon Health Leadership Council and the Oregon Healthcare Quality Corporation worked with the Center for Evidence-based Policy to create an evidence-based guidelines on the evaluation and management of low back pain.

The responsibility for continued guideline creation was placed with the Health Evidence Review Commission in January 2012.

The guidelines below were vetted through a public process overseen by the HERC:

• Evaluation and Management of Low Back Pain — October 2011 (Retired 1/14/2016)
• Advanced Imaging for Low Back Pain — April 2012  (Retired 1/14/2016)
• Percutaneous Interventions for Low Back Pain — June 2012  (Retired 1/14/2016)

Derivative products based on these guidelines:

• Patient brochure based on the Evaluation and Management of Low Back Pain guideline

Guideline Topics Currently Under Development

No evidence-based guidelines are currently under development.