In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Andrea Cook, Lynn DeBar, and Patricia Herman will present “A Policy-Relevant Pragmatic Trial on Acupuncture Effectiveness for Low Back Pain in Older Adults: Clinical and Cost Outcomes and Lessons Learned.”
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, May 9, 2025, at 1:00 pm eastern.
The speakers will present the results of BackInAction, an NIH Collaboratory Trial. BackInAction compared standard and advanced courses of acupuncture with usual care for older adults with chronic low back pain.
Cook is a senior biostatistics investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; DeBar is a distinguished investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; and Herman is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, codirector of the RAND Research Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Center, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.