Table 4

Summary of studies included in the quantitative synthesis
Study reference numberCountryParticipantsMethods of data collectionMethods of data analysis
[]United States (US)343 Pregnant patientsQuestionnairesDescriptive statistics and the paired t test
[]Canada69 Military personnel presenting for on-site chiropractic servicesQuestionnaireMultivariable regression model
[]US20 Patients with low back painQuestionnairesStudent's t-test
[]Canada6 Chiropractors licensed with the College of Chiropractors of British ColumbiaQuestionnaireDescriptive statistics
[]US20 Institutions provided a written copy of the Informed consent documentsRetrieving Informed Consent (IC) documentsIC were compared against a list of requirements
[]United Kingdom (UK)509 Participants from four participating UK associationsTelephone surveyPearson Chi-Square tests
[]Australia153 Patients with chronic conditionsQuestionnairesDescriptive and summary statistics
[]US1759 Adults in the United States populationQuestionnaireDescriptive and multivariate methods
[]US66 Questionnaires were returned from new and established patientsQuestionnaireNot explicitly specified
[]US400 Participants with chronic low back painQuestionnairePath analysis
[]US681 Patients randomized, 341 were assigned to the 2 chiropractic groupsQuestionnaires at baseline and 2 weeks of treatmentMixed linear modelling
[]USSame trial as in the study of Hertzman-Miller et al. []QuestionnairesMultiple logistic and linear regression modelling
[]Australia144 Patients seeing chiropractors with practices in diverse locationsQuestionnairesNot explicitly specified
[]Australia9 Chiropractors and 173 patients participatedQuestionnairesDescriptive statistics
[]The Netherlands89 Chiropractors, 207 patient–chiropractor working relationshipsQuestionnairesA one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) test
[]US72 Chiropractors who worked in 61 chiropractic practicesQuestionnaireRegression analysis
[]Canada2597 Patients participating in a collaborative studyQuestionnairesA multiple linear regression model
[]USA sample of 57 people, who made a total of 104 office visits between them(1) Audiotape of all clinical interaction of the chiropractor for 8 days (2) patient questionnaires pertaining to satisfaction with care(1) Data was content analysed using the modified Bales method of process analysis []. (2) descriptive statistics
[]UK465 Practitioners of which 132 chiropractors (28%)QuestionnairesSeveral multivariate analyses of variance (ANOVA)
[]US541 New and returning chiropractic patientsQuestionnairesMultiple stepwise regression analysis
[]Sweden30 Chiropractors and 336 patients from 17 private practicesQuestionnairesThe Wilcoxon signed rank test
[]US62 Chronic pain patients recruited from four chiropractic officesQuestionnairesSeries of multiple regression analyses
[]Canada90 Participants were recruited from two private chiropractic clinicsQuestionnaireDescriptive statistics