| Summary: | The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requested that AHRQ commission an evidence report to assist in updating the CMS policy regarding decompression therapy for chronic low back pain. Accordingly, on January 17, 2006, AHRQ issued a Statement of Work (SOW) contracting ECRI to prepare an evidence report titled, "Decompression Therapy for the Treatment of Lumbosacral Pain." The SOW specified that ECRI undertake the following tasks:1. Systematically search, review, and analyze the relevant scientific evidence appropriate for each question. Search Medline and other suitable databases containing primary literature relevant to the questions to be addressed. Identify other sources of relevant literature, such as gray literature, clinical trials currently in progress, and clinical practice guidelines.2. Retrieve and review full articles on eligible studies, assessing quality and extracting key data from each eligible study.3. Prepare evidence tables and a summary of important findings
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