Patient and provider characteristics associated with therapeutic intervention selection in a chiropractic clinical encounter: a cross-sectional analysis of the COAST and O-COAST study data.

"Declarations Ethical approval and Consent to participateEthics approval for COAST was provided by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC: 0931651) and for O-COAST by the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (REB: 1404 × 03) and Queen’s University (REB: 6012853) ethics boards. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsSDF is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. The editorial management system automatically blinded him from the submitted manuscript, and he had no part in the editorial or peer-review process of this manuscript. JJY is supported by Arthritis Society Canada and the Danish Foundation for Chiropractic Research and Post-graduate Education, both outside the submitted work. JJW is funded by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; and reports grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (paid to university) outside the submitted work. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests SDF is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. The editorial management system automatically blinded him from the submitted manuscript, and he had no part in the editorial or peer-review process of this manuscript. JJY is supported by Arthritis Society Canada and the Danish Foundation for Chiropractic Research and Post-graduate Education, both outside the submitted work. JJW is funded by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; and reports grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (paid to university) outside the submitted work. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This COAST study was funded by the Chiropractors Registration Board of Victoria and the Chiropractors Association of Australia. The funding bodies provided general advice about the design of the project but had no role in the conduct of the study or in the decisions about publication of the results. This O-COAST study was funded by the Ontario Chiropractic Association (OCA) and Queen’s University. The OCA provided general advice about the design of the project, but was not involved in the collection of data, data analysis, interpretation of data or drafting of the manuscript. The funder Queen’s University did not have any involvement in the project. No additional funding was obtained for this study."