guidelines

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Listmates:

1) I support the notion our OBCE should be the party that develops

guidelines, as the schools and various organizations have failed to

produce a document they can all agree upon. It is required by

Legislative mandate via ORS that the OBCE license DCs in the first

place. If OBCE is responsible for such a task in the first place, then

it is reasonable they develop those professional guidelines applicable

within the state.

2) Whatever parameters or guidelines our licensing body recognizes as

appropriate and necessary to make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions,

there must be a body of academic evidence supporting the inclusion of

those parameters. It is the OBCE to which we all must be able to

demonstrate upon what our clinical reasoning is based. Our chart notes

must contain sufficient information to make that determination. Neither

the schools nor the professional organizations have the legal authority

or responsibility to determine what constitutes the practice of

Chiropractic in Oregon. Only the OBCE has the mechanism to enforce

remedy of violation of those guidelines.

3) DCs have been performing services for well over a century, and for

all too long with little to no documentation to support our clinical

claims. It's time we stipulate methods to demonstrate HOW we measure

results of chiropractic care.

4) It's time we focus on honing what DCs can prove we do for the good of

the patient. Our efforts to remodel the 'health care system' will

strengthen as we provide AS A PROFESSION undeniable quality of service

and a set of performance protocols that can not be ignored or dismissed.

We must focus on what CHIROPRACTORS do;

we must FOCUS on what CHIROPRACTORS do;

we MUST FOCUS on what CHIROPRACTORS do;

WE MUST FOCUS on what CHIROPRACTORS DO....

J. Pedersen DC

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