Journal of clinical epidemiology
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Multicenter Study
The use of weekly text messaging over 6 months was a feasible method for monitoring the clinical course of low back pain in patients seeking chiropractic care.
This study critically evaluates a new method of collecting frequent data using mobile phones and text messages. Fluctuating conditions such as low back pain (LBP) need frequent monitoring to describe the clinical course in detail and to account for individual and subgroup variations. ⋯ Weekly text messages are a useful method of data collection to examine the clinical course of LBP in the primary care sector.