List of works - Francisco M. Kovacs

A comparison of two short education programs for improving low back pain-related disability in the elderly: a cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in May 2007

A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

scientific article published on January 2008

A core outcome set for clinical trials on non-specific low back pain: study protocol for the development of a core domain set.

scientific article

Acupuncture does not produce a significant clinical effect in chronic neck pain

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Advocating for Cost-Effective Placebos

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Advocating for a moratorium on low-quality research in the spinal manipulation field

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Agreement in the assessment of metastatic spine disease using scoring systems.

scientific article

Agreement in the interpretation of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine.

scientific article published on June 2009

Appropriateness of lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging in Spain

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Avoidable costs of physical treatments for chronic back, neck and shoulder pain within the Spanish National Health Service: a cross-sectional study

scientific article

Catastrophizing, state anxiety, anger, and depressive symptoms do not correlate with disability when variations of trait anxiety are taken into account. a study of chronic low back pain patients treated in Spanish pain units [NCT00360802].

scientific article published on 13 June 2011

Chapter 4. European guidelines for the management of chronic nonspecific low back pain.

scientific article

Clinical research: is the spine field a mine field?

scientific article published in March 2009

Clinical results of lumbar total disc arthroplasty in accordance with Modic signs, with a 2-year-minimum follow-up.

Letters

Core outcome domains for clinical trials in non-specific low back pain

scientific article published on 5 April 2015

Core outcome measurement instruments for clinical trials in nonspecific low back pain

scientific article

Correlation between pain, disability, and quality of life in patients with common low back pain

scientific article published in January 2004

Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine

scientific article

Disc degeneration and chronic low back pain: an association which becomes nonsignificant when endplate changes and disc contour are taken into account

scientific article

Effect of firmness of mattress on chronic non-specific low-back pain: randomised, double-blind, controlled, multicentre trial

scientific article published in November 2003

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analysis of neuroreflexotherapy for subacute and chronic low back pain in routine general practice: a cluster randomized, controlled trial.

scientific article

Effectiveness of the Godelieve Denys-Struyf (GDS) method in people with low back pain: cluster randomized controlled trial.

scientific article

Erratum to: Core outcome domains for clinical trials in non-specific low back pain

scientific article published on 08 May 2015

Exercise treatment effect modifiers in persistent low back pain: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 3514 participants from 27 randomised controlled trials

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Fear avoidance beliefs and low back pain: "practical reviews" from expert panel discussions versus comprehensive systematic reviews.

scientific article published in February 2012

Fear avoidance beliefs do not influence disability and quality of life in Spanish elderly subjects with low back pain.

scientific article published in September 2007

Fear avoidance beliefs influence duration of sick leave in Spanish low back pain patients.

scientific article

Improving methodology when analyzing shockwave evidence: evidence holds the key

article

Improving schoolchildren's knowledge of methods for the prevention and management of low back pain: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published in April 2011

Inappropriate use of lumbar magnetic resonance imaging: limitations and potential solutions

scientific article published in November 2013

Index case for the fungal meningitis outbreak, United States

scientific article published in March 2013

Influence of nomenclature in the interpretation of lumbar disk contour on MR imaging: a comparison of the agreement using the combined task force and the nordic nomenclatures

scientific article

Kinetics of hypodermically injected technetium-99m and correlation with cutaneous structures: an experimental study in dogs.

scientific article

Language bias in a systematic review of chronic pain: how to prevent the omission of non-English publications?

scientific article published in May 2004

Letters

scientific article published on 01 August 2013

Letters

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Letters

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Letters

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Lumbar spine: agreement in the interpretation of 1.5-T MR images by using the Nordic Modic Consensus Group classification form

scientific article published on February 2010

Migration pathways of hypodermically injected technetium-99m in dogs

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Minimal Clinically Important Change for Pain Intensity and Disability in Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Minimum detectable and minimal clinically important changes for pain in patients with nonspecific neck pain

scientific article

Modic changes and associated features in Southern European chronic low back pain patients

Neuro-reflexotherapy for the management of myofascial temporomandibular joint pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial.

scientific article

Non-specific low back pain in primary care in the Spanish National Health Service: a prospective study on clinical outcomes and determinants of management

scientific article published on 17 May 2006

Overenthusiastic Interpretations of a Nonetheless Promising Study

scientific article

Overviews’’ should meet the methodological standards of systematic reviews.

scientific article published on February 2014

Painful spine disorders: chance and opportunities with imaging techniques ⬇️

scientific article published on September 23, 2011

Percutaneous thermocoagulation intradiscal techniques for discogenic low back pain

scientific article

Phraseology of disk herniation: An unproductive debate

scientific article published on 11 June 2011

Physician-Related Variability in the Outcomes of an Invasive Treatment for Neck and Back Pain: A Multi-Level Analysis of Data Gathered in Routine Clinical Practice

scientific article published on 07 April 2021

Post-implementation surveillance of a non-pharmacological health technology within a national health service.

scientific article

Predicting outcomes of neuroreflexotherapy in patients with subacute or chronic neck or low back pain.

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Predicting the evolution of low back pain patients in routine clinical practice: results from a registry within the Spanish National Health Service

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

Predicting the evolution of neck pain episodes in routine clinical practice

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Preoperative predictors for postoperative clinical outcome in lumbar spinal stenosis: systematic review.

scientific article published on August 2006

Prevalence and factors associated with a higher risk of neck and back pain among permanent wheelchair users: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Prevalence and factors associated with low back pain and pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy: a multicenter study conducted in the Spanish National Health Service

scientific article

Prognostic factors for neuroreflexotherapy in the treatment of subacute and chronic neck and back pain: a study of predictors of clinical outcome in routine practice of the Spanish National Health Service

scientific article published in July 2007

Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of instruments to measure neck pain disability

scientific article

Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of the FAB questionnaire.

scientific article published in January 2006

Re: "Prediction of skeletal-related events in patients with non-small cell lung cancer"-use of Spine Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS).

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Re: Are Modic changes associated with intervertebral disc cytokine profiles?

scientific article published in February 2018

Re: Correlation of size and type of modic types 1 and 2 lesions with clinical symptoms: a descriptive study in a subgroup of patients with chronic low back pain on the basis of a university hospital patient sample

scientific article

Re: ISSLS prize winner: lumbar vertebral endplate lesions associations with disc degeneration and back pain history. Spine 2012;37:1490-6.

scientific article published in January 2013

Re: Wertli MM, Burgstaller JM, Weiser S, et al. Influence of catastrophizing on treatment outcome in patients with nonspecific low back pain. A systematic review. Spine 2014;39:263–73.

scientific article published in October 2014

Recommendations on ultrasound for low back pain: profit-driven or evidence-based?

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Reply:

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Reporting outcomes of back pain trials: a modified Delphi study

scientific article published on 18 May 2011

Risk factors for non-specific low back pain in schoolchildren and their parents: a population based study.

scientific article

Spine Instability Neoplastic Score: agreement across different medical and surgical specialties

scientific article

Surgery versus conservative treatment for symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

scientific article

The challenge of taking on board unexpected conclusions.

scientific article published in December 2012

The correlation between pain, catastrophizing, and disability in subacute and chronic low back pain: a study in the routine clinical practice of the Spanish National Health Service

scientific article published in February 2011

The efficacy of a short education program and a short physiotherapy program for treating low back pain in primary care: a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published in March 2010

The influence of fear avoidance beliefs on disability and quality of life is sparse in Spanish low back pain patients

scientific article published in November 2005

The influence of parents on habits and substance use in adolescents of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2003

scientific article published in November 2008

The influence of psychological factors on low back pain-related disability in community dwelling older persons.

scientific article published in October 2008

The perceptions of people with low back pain treated in the Spanish National Health, and their experience while undergoing a new evidence-based treatment. A focus group study

scientific article

The prognostic value of catastrophizing for predicting the clinical evolution of low back pain patients: a study in routine clinical practice within the Spanish National Health Service

scientific article published on 20 July 2012

The social tariff of EQ-5D is not adequate to assess quality of life in patients with low back pain

scientific article published on 17 November 2006

The transition from acute to subacute and chronic low back pain: a study based on determinants of quality of life and prediction of chronic disability

scientific article published in August 2005

The use of risk sharing tools for post adoption surveillance of a non pharmacological technology in routine practice: results after one year ⬇️

scientific article published on May 20, 2013

Uncertainties in the Measurement of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis at MR Imaging: Are They Clinically Relevant?

article published in 2012

Validation of the spanish version of the Roland-Morris questionnaire

scientific article published in March 2002

Vertebral endplate changes are not associated with chronic low back pain among Southern European subjects: a case control study

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Yet another reason for improving approval and surveillance processes for health technologies

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

[How to care for the backs of the caretakers]

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

List of works by Francisco M. Kovacs

A comparison of two short education programs for improving low back pain-related disability in the elderly: a cluster randomized controlled trial

A consensus approach toward the standardization of back pain definitions for use in prevalence studies

A core outcome set for clinical trials on non-specific low back pain: study protocol for the development of a core domain set.

Acupuncture does not produce a significant clinical effect in chronic neck pain

Advocating for Cost-Effective Placebos

Advocating for a moratorium on low-quality research in the spinal manipulation field

Agreement in the assessment of metastatic spine disease using scoring systems.

Agreement in the interpretation of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine.

Appropriateness of lumbar spine magnetic resonance imaging in Spain

Avoidable costs of physical treatments for chronic back, neck and shoulder pain within the Spanish National Health Service: a cross-sectional study

Catastrophizing, state anxiety, anger, and depressive symptoms do not correlate with disability when variations of trait anxiety are taken into account. a study of chronic low back pain patients treated in Spanish pain units [NCT00360802].

Chapter 4. European guidelines for the management of chronic nonspecific low back pain.

Clinical research: is the spine field a mine field?

Clinical results of lumbar total disc arthroplasty in accordance with Modic signs, with a 2-year-minimum follow-up.

Core outcome domains for clinical trials in non-specific low back pain

Core outcome measurement instruments for clinical trials in nonspecific low back pain

Correlation between pain, disability, and quality of life in patients with common low back pain

Degenerative disease of the lumbar spine

Disc degeneration and chronic low back pain: an association which becomes nonsignificant when endplate changes and disc contour are taken into account

Effect of firmness of mattress on chronic non-specific low-back pain: randomised, double-blind, controlled, multicentre trial

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analysis of neuroreflexotherapy for subacute and chronic low back pain in routine general practice: a cluster randomized, controlled trial.

Effectiveness of the Godelieve Denys-Struyf (GDS) method in people with low back pain: cluster randomized controlled trial.

Erratum to: Core outcome domains for clinical trials in non-specific low back pain

Exercise treatment effect modifiers in persistent low back pain: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 3514 participants from 27 randomised controlled trials

Fear avoidance beliefs and low back pain: "practical reviews" from expert panel discussions versus comprehensive systematic reviews.

Fear avoidance beliefs do not influence disability and quality of life in Spanish elderly subjects with low back pain.

Fear avoidance beliefs influence duration of sick leave in Spanish low back pain patients.

Improving methodology when analyzing shockwave evidence: evidence holds the key

Improving schoolchildren's knowledge of methods for the prevention and management of low back pain: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Inappropriate use of lumbar magnetic resonance imaging: limitations and potential solutions

Index case for the fungal meningitis outbreak, United States

Influence of nomenclature in the interpretation of lumbar disk contour on MR imaging: a comparison of the agreement using the combined task force and the nordic nomenclatures

Kinetics of hypodermically injected technetium-99m and correlation with cutaneous structures: an experimental study in dogs.

Language bias in a systematic review of chronic pain: how to prevent the omission of non-English publications?

Letters

Letters

Letters

Letters

Letters

Lumbar spine: agreement in the interpretation of 1.5-T MR images by using the Nordic Modic Consensus Group classification form

Migration pathways of hypodermically injected technetium-99m in dogs

Minimal Clinically Important Change for Pain Intensity and Disability in Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain

Minimum detectable and minimal clinically important changes for pain in patients with nonspecific neck pain

Modic changes and associated features in Southern European chronic low back pain patients

Neuro-reflexotherapy for the management of myofascial temporomandibular joint pain: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial.

Non-specific low back pain in primary care in the Spanish National Health Service: a prospective study on clinical outcomes and determinants of management

Overenthusiastic Interpretations of a Nonetheless Promising Study

Overviews’’ should meet the methodological standards of systematic reviews.

Painful spine disorders: chance and opportunities with imaging techniques ⬇️

Percutaneous thermocoagulation intradiscal techniques for discogenic low back pain

Phraseology of disk herniation: An unproductive debate

Physician-Related Variability in the Outcomes of an Invasive Treatment for Neck and Back Pain: A Multi-Level Analysis of Data Gathered in Routine Clinical Practice

Post-implementation surveillance of a non-pharmacological health technology within a national health service.

Predicting outcomes of neuroreflexotherapy in patients with subacute or chronic neck or low back pain.

Predicting the evolution of low back pain patients in routine clinical practice: results from a registry within the Spanish National Health Service

Predicting the evolution of neck pain episodes in routine clinical practice

Preoperative predictors for postoperative clinical outcome in lumbar spinal stenosis: systematic review.

Prevalence and factors associated with a higher risk of neck and back pain among permanent wheelchair users: a cross-sectional study

Prevalence and factors associated with low back pain and pelvic girdle pain during pregnancy: a multicenter study conducted in the Spanish National Health Service

Prognostic factors for neuroreflexotherapy in the treatment of subacute and chronic neck and back pain: a study of predictors of clinical outcome in routine practice of the Spanish National Health Service

Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of instruments to measure neck pain disability

Psychometric characteristics of the Spanish version of the FAB questionnaire.

Re: "Prediction of skeletal-related events in patients with non-small cell lung cancer"-use of Spine Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS).

Re: Are Modic changes associated with intervertebral disc cytokine profiles?

Re: Correlation of size and type of modic types 1 and 2 lesions with clinical symptoms: a descriptive study in a subgroup of patients with chronic low back pain on the basis of a university hospital patient sample

Re: ISSLS prize winner: lumbar vertebral endplate lesions associations with disc degeneration and back pain history. Spine 2012;37:1490-6.

Re: Wertli MM, Burgstaller JM, Weiser S, et al. Influence of catastrophizing on treatment outcome in patients with nonspecific low back pain. A systematic review. Spine 2014;39:263–73.

Recommendations on ultrasound for low back pain: profit-driven or evidence-based?

Reply:

Reporting outcomes of back pain trials: a modified Delphi study

Risk factors for non-specific low back pain in schoolchildren and their parents: a population based study.

Spine Instability Neoplastic Score: agreement across different medical and surgical specialties

Surgery versus conservative treatment for symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

The challenge of taking on board unexpected conclusions.

The correlation between pain, catastrophizing, and disability in subacute and chronic low back pain: a study in the routine clinical practice of the Spanish National Health Service

The efficacy of a short education program and a short physiotherapy program for treating low back pain in primary care: a cluster randomized trial

The influence of fear avoidance beliefs on disability and quality of life is sparse in Spanish low back pain patients

The influence of parents on habits and substance use in adolescents of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in 2003

The influence of psychological factors on low back pain-related disability in community dwelling older persons.