Acceptability, values, and preferences of older people for chronic low back pain management; a qualitative evidence synthesis.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsHA and CHH declare that they have no competing interests. AMB declares he works as a consultant to the WHO. Competing interests HA and CHH declare that they have no competing interests. AMB declares he works as a consultant to the WHO."

"Funding Open access funding provided by Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI) This synthesis was commissioned and funded by the WHO to contribute to a guidelines process. The lead authors (HA and CHH) discussed the synthesis objectives and inclusion criteria with the commissioner. HA and CHH independently conducted the synthesis and came to the findings."

"This QES followed the best practice as described by the Cochrane collaboration in their handbook [, ]. The protocol was registered on PROSPERO at inception (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=328469)."