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  Title Guidance concerning chiropractic practice in response to COVID-19 in the U.S.: A summary of state regulators’ web-based information
URL https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12998-020-00333-6
Journal Chiropr & Manual Ther. 2020 ;28(44):Online access only 10 p
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Publication Type Article
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes, as many state and local governments enacted stay-at-home orders and non-essential businesses were closed. State chiropractic licensing boards play an important role in protecting the public via regulation of licensure and provision of guidance regarding standards of practice, especially during times of change or uncertainty.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to summarize the guidance provided in each of the 50 United States, related to chiropractic practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A review of the public facing websites of governors and state chiropractic licensing boards was conducted in the United States. Data were collected regarding the official guidance provided by each state’s chiropractic licensing board as well as the issuance of stay-at-home orders and designations of essential personnel by state governors. Descriptive statistics were used to report the findings from this project.

Results: Each of the 50 state governor’s websites and individual state chiropractic licensing board’s websites were surveyed. Stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders were issued in 86% of all states. Chiropractors were classified as essential providers in 54% of states, non-essential in one state (2%), and no guidance was provided in the remaining 44% of all states. Fourteen states (28%) recommended restricting visits to only urgent cases and the remaining states (72%) provided no guidance. Twenty-seven states (54%) provided information regarding protecting against infectious disease and the remaining states (46%) provided no guidance. Twenty-two states (44%) provided recommendations regarding chiropractic telehealth and the remaining states (56%) provided no guidance. Seventeen states (34%) altered license renewal requirements and eight states (16%) issued warnings against advertising misleading or false information regarding spinal manipulation and protection from COVID-19.

Conclusion: State guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic was heterogenous, widely variability in accessibility, and often no guidance was provided by state chiropractic licensing boards. Some state chiropractic licensing boards chose to assemble guidance for licensees into a single location, which we identified as a best practice for future situations where changes in chiropractic practice must be quickly communicated.

Author keywords: Chiropractic — COVID-19 —  Coronavirus disease 2019 — 2019 novel coronavirus disease —  Licensure —  Governing board —  Regulation —  Social control

Author affiliations: SMN, SLH: Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States; CBR: Veterans Affairs Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Grand Island, Nebraska, United States; CSO: Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States; JGN, RM: St Louis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, St Louis, Missouri, United States; NAH: Veterans Affairs Central Iowa Health Care System, Des Moines, Iowa, United States; DJP: Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Redding, California, United States

This abstract is reproduced with the permission of the publisher; click on the above link for free full text.  PDF | PubMed Record

 
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