ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Thoracic Back Pain

Brian Callaghan, MD, MS, reports grants or contracts from National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, American Academy of Neurology; consulting fees from Dynamed; American Academy of Neurology editorial board; payment for expert testimony from Medical legal work including the vaccine injury compensation program. Christopher D. Jackson, MD, reports leadership roles as American College of Physicians Population Health and Medical Sciences Subcommittee and United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 3 Test Material Development Committee, Southern Medical Association President, Society of General Internal Medicine Council. Claire K. Sandstrom, MD, reports payments or honoraria from Honorarium for Grand Rounds lecture at Mass General Hospital/Brigham & Women's, Honorarium for Grand Rounds lecture at Beth Israel Deaconness MC, Honorarium for lecture for Everlearning; leadership roles as Chair, Fellow Education Committee, American Society of Emergency Radiology. Michael Hanak, MD, reports payment for expert testimony relating to an existing patient in the role of a treating clinician; support for meetings from American Academy of Family Physicians reimburses business expenses related to representing the organization in forums like the AMA House of Delegates and CPT Advisory Council (alternate advisor) ; leadership roles as Chairperson of the American Academy of Family Physicians delegation to the AMA; sits on American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Quality and Practice; serves as associate CMO at Rush University Medical Center. Majid A. Khan, MD, reports consulting fees from Stryker Medical, Hyprevention, Medwaves Avecure; payment for expert testimony as an expert witness in medicolegal cases. Matthew S. Parsons, MD, reports leadership roles as Neuroradiology Fellowship Director. Charles Reitman, MD, reports consulting fees from Medical Metrics (<$1,000) . Paid to me; payment for expert testimony to institution; leadership roles as North American Spine Society. Christopher Sampson, MD, reports leadership roles as Vice Chair-Research, Department of Emergency Medicine University of Missouri School of Medicine. The other authors state that they have no conflict of interest related to the material discussed in this article. Jeff Mullin, MD, MBA, is a partner; and all other authors are non-partner/non-partnership track/employees.The ACR Appropriateness Criteria documents are updated regularly. Please go to the ACR website at www.acr.org/ac to confirm that you are accessing the most current content.