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To address the many medical and policy issues that WorkSafeBC officers deal with regularly, WorkSafeBC has established an evidence-based workgroup. Members apply established techniques of critical appraisal and evidence-based review of topics solicited from both WorkSafeBC staff and other interested parties like surgeons, medical specialists, and rehabilitation providers.
Since 2007, WorkSafeBC’s Evidence-Based Practice Group has been a partner organization to Cochrane Canada, the national centre of the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Collaboration is a worldwide network of people helping healthcare providers, policy makers, patients, and their advocates and caregivers make well informed decisions about health care by preparing, updating, and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews.
Goal of the workgroup
To identify relevant topics that upon review will provide clarification of existing practices, or alter practices based on up-to-date evidence. The results are shared with WorkSafeBC officers and health care providers.
Guidelines
Systematic reviews
For your convenience, the following information is now available:
- Acupuncture (PDF 85kb)
- Adhesive capsulitis – A review of the ‘Joint Active Systems (JAS) Shoulder’ and its impact on treatment (PDF 604kb)
- Alternative medicine - Some definitions and evidence for health care benefits guidelines (PDF 691kb)
- Artificial cervical and lumbar disc implants - A review of the literature (PDF 553kb)
- Clinical guidelines for the treatment of low-back pain (PDF 3mb)
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). What does the literature report regarding the time interval between the inciting trauma and its subsequent diagnosis? (PDF 636kb)
- CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) Second Update (PDF 7.0mb)
- CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) First Update (PDF 370kb)
- CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) (PDF 236kb)
- Craniosacral therapy review
- Critical appraisal and comments on 'Physiotherapy briefings for physicians' (Low Back Pain study sparks discussion) (PDF 146kb)
- Cryocuffs (PDF 101kb)
- Dental implants in patients diagnosed with scleroderma (PDF 541kb)
- Detecting malingerers - Hidden truths (PDF 50kb)
- E-MAG Active, a newer Stance Control Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis (SCKAFO) in the context of workers’ compensation (PDF 856kb)
- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in treating calcific supraspinatus tendinopathy (PDF 695kb)
- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy - Sonocur ® - First Update (PDF 218kb)
- Extracorporeal shockwave therapy - Sonocur ® (PDF 50kb)
- First carpo-metacarpal osteoarthritis and its association with occupation (with an emphasis on clerical workers) (PDF 758kb)
- Glucosamine (PDF 193kb)
- Hernia (PDF 548kb)
- Homeopathic Practices (PDF 82kb)
- Hydrotherapy - Review on the effectiveness of its application in physiotherapy and occupational therapy (PDF 188kb)
- Intrathecal fentanyl for chronic non-malignant pain (PDF 148kb)
- Intravenous lidocaine for chronic pain (PDF 991kb)
- Lateral epicondylitis (PDF 43kb)
- Low intensity ultrasound (Exogen®) for treating fracture nonunion and short reviews on other bone growth stimulator devices and orthobionomics (PDF 651kb)
- Low level laser therapy - Effectiveness in treating various conditions (PDF 334kb)
- Marijuana for medicinal purposes: An evidence-based assessment - First update (PDF 74kb)
- Marijuana for medicinal purposes: An evidence-based assessment (PDF 605kb)
- Massage Therapy - a quick review on the available evidence (PDF 52kb)
- MTBI - Review of the literature and a look at the WCB of BC data (PDF 1.5mb)
- Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities (PDF 1.1mb)
- Occupational Dental Erosion (PDF 866kb)
- OmegaWave Sport Technology System (PDF 551kb)
- Opioid use in chronic non-cancer pain (PDF 564kb)
- Otto Bock C-Leg - First update (PDF 1.4mb)
- Otto Bock C-Leg (PDF 265kb)
- Percutaneous radio-frequency neurotomy treatment of chronic cervical pain following whiplash injury (PDF 964kb)
- Percutaneous vertebroplasty for pain relief in the management of compressive vertebral fractures (PDF 150kb)
- Phantom Tooth Pain: Cause-effect relationship with tooth manipulation, injury or extraction (PDF 709kb)
- Platelet rich plasma in treating tendinopathies (PDF 404kb)
- Postural Reconstruction Physiotherapy (PDF 69kb)
- Pulsed signal therapy for musculoskeletal conditions (PDF 167kb)
- Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography (SPECT) Use in Clinical Psychiatry — Justified? (PDF 855kb)
- Spinal cord stimulation - Use in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (PDF 80kb)
- Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (PDF 287kb)
- Topiramate (Topamax) use in treating neuropathic pain (PDF 128kb)
- Treatment of chronic pain post inguinal hernia repair (PDF 670kb)
- Unicompartmental interpositional implant for osteoarthritis of the knee (PDF 779kb)
- Upper Limb Prostheses – A Review of the Literature With a Focus on Myoelectric Hands (PDF 1.5mb)
- Vertebral axial decompression therapy for low back pain - 2012 update (PDF 576kb)
- Vertebral axial decompression therapy for low back pain - 2005 (PDF 370kb)
- Viscosupplementation in treating ankle, including talocalcaneal joint, osteoarthritis of primary or secondary origin (PDF 427kb)
- Whole body vibration and low back pain - First update (PDF 628kb)
- Whole body vibration and low back pain - literature review (PDF 554kb)
Posters and Presentations
- Acupuncture Review of the Systematic Reviews (PDF 380kb)
- Artificial cervical (and lumbar) disc implants (PDF 1.3mb)
- C-Leg® (PDF 408kb)
- Clinical Day - June 1, 2005 Summary of Published Projects (PDF 2.9mb)
- Developing an Evidence-Based Process for Validation of Health Care Practices (PDF 60kb)
- Developing practice directive on claims with opioids prescribed at WorkSafeBC (PDF 2.2mb)
- Development of Post-Operative Rehabilitation Protocols at the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia (PDF 81kb)
- Effect of early opioid prescribing on disability outcome in workers compensation in BC – a preliminary study (PDF 2.7mb)
- Effectiveness of Spinal Cord Stimulator in treating Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in Injured Workers (PDF 578kb)
- Evidence-based treatment of chronic pain – extended summary and references (PDF 582kb)
- Glucosamine Review on its effectiveness in Treating Knee Osteoarthritis (PDF 59kb)
- Low Back Pain at the WCB (PDF 1.1mb)
- Mesothelioma claims and the WCB (PDF 1.2mb)
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury at the WCB (PDF 176kb)
- Occupational Dental Erosion (PDF 1.5mb)
- Systematically Reviewing Non-Randomized Controlled Trial Evidence on Complementary Medicine (PDF 50kb)
- Towards the Development of Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (PDF 533kb)
- VAX-D therapy for lower back pain (PDF 883kb)
- WCB HTA Office Joint Endeavour (PDF 28 kb)
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