Christopher G Maher

Biographic Data

ID3482868
NAMEChristopher G Maher
GIVEN NAMESChristopher G
FAMILY NAMEMaher
SIGNATUREMAHER C G
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Sydney
ORCID0000-0002-1628-7857
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Co‐Designing the Early Pain Intervention After Knee Replacement (Epik) Model of Care for People With Persistent Pain After Knee Replacement

    Open AccessNavneet Chadha, Joshua R Zadro et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

    BACKGROUND: Approximately one in five Australians who undergo total knee replacement (TKR) experience persistent postoperative pain. There are currently no known effective and cost-effective multidisciplinary models of care in Australia to address this. We are developing the 'Early Pain Intervention after Knee Replacement' (EPIK) model of care, adapted from 'Support and Treatment After Replacement' (STAR) care pathway. STAR was developed in the U…

  • A Decision Aid for Patients Considering Surgery for Sciatica

    Open AccessJulie Ayre, Richie Kumarage et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    BACKGROUND: Surgery can help patients with leg pain caused by sciatica recover faster, but by 12 months outcomes are similar to nonsurgical management. For many the decision to have surgery may require reflection, and patient decision aids are an evidence-based clinical tool that can help guide patients through this decision. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to develop and refine a decision aid for patients with sciatica who are deciding whet…

  • Shifting From Opioids to Simple Analgesics for Emergency Care of Patients With Low Back Pain

    Open AccessClaudia Côté‐Picard, Claudia Côté-Picard et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2024

    This secondary analysis of a cluster randomized clinical trial examined a guideline-based care model for patients with low back pain, specifically whether physicians switched from opioids to low-risk or high-risk nonopioid pain medicines

  • Completeness and quality of low back pain prevalence data in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Open AccessMamata Tamrakar, Priti Kharel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Completeness of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study data is acknowledged as a limitation. To date, no study has evaluated this issue for low back pain, a leading contributor to disease burden globally. METHODS: We retrieved reports, in any language, based on citation details from the GBD 2017 study website. Pairs of raters independently extracted the following data: number of prevalence reports tallied across countries, age groups,…

  • “I would not go to him”

    Open AccessSweekriti Sharma, Adrian C Traeger et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2021

    BACKGROUND: Community awareness of the harms of overdiagnosis remains low. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate community responses to a public health campaign designed for health service waiting rooms that focuses on the harms of unnecessary diagnostic imaging for low back pain. METHODS: We conducted two focus groups of 19 community members with or without low back pain in Sydney, Australia. This study formed the fourth and final stage of the development proc…

  • Delivering the right care to people with low back pain in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessSweekriti Sharma, Adrian C Traeger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    Nepal faces major challenges to reducing the burden of low back pain including an undersupply of health professionals, overuse of ineffective healthcare services, and high out-of-pocket expenses

  • Prevention and treatment of low back pain

    Open AccessNadine E Foster, Johannes R Anema et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2018

  • Non-specific low back pain

    Open AccessChristopher G Maher, Chris Maher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

  • Predictors of time to claim closure following a non-catastrophic injury sustained in a motor vehicle crash

    Open AccessBamini Gopinath, Nieke A Elbers et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Around a third of claimants with a minor injury had not settled by 24 months. Health-related factors and lawyer involvement independently influenced time to claim closure

  • Factors influencing social and health outcomes after motor vehicle crash injury

    Open AccessJagnoor Jagnoor, Fiona Blyth et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Australia New Zealand Clinical trial registry identification number--ACTRN12613000889752. Available at: ANZCTR Registered FISH Study

  • An international survey of pain in adolescents

    Open AccessMichael Swain, Michael Steven Swain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    Somatic pain is very common in adolescents, more often coexisting than occurring in isolation. Our data supports the need for further research to improve the understanding of these pains in adolescents

  • Reliability of the PEDro Scale for Rating Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Christopher G Maher, Catherine Sherrington et al.ARTICLEPhysical Therapy2003

    Background and Purpose. Assessment of the quality of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is common practice in systematic reviews. However, the reliability of data obtained with most quality assessment scales has not been established. This report describes 2 studies designed to investigate the reliability of data obtained with the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale developed to rate the quality of RCTs evaluating physical therapist int…