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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Low Back Pain Patients’ Perceptions Regarding Their Own Radiology Reports: Pre-Intervention Survey

Gilad J Regev1 Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Roi Treister3 The Cheryl Spencer Department of Nursing, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Silviu Brill2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel;4 Institute of Pain Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, IsraelORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7150-5821
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Dror Ofir1 Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Khalil Salame1 Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Zvi Lidar1 Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Morsi Khashan1 Spine Surgery Unit, Neurosurgical Department, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel;2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Rivka Litvin5 Department of surgery, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Uri Hochberg2 Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel;4 Institute of Pain Medicine, Division of Anesthesiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 933-941 | Received 13 Nov 2022, Accepted 07 Mar 2023, Published online: 17 Mar 2023

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