This trial serves patients in Utah and Maryland. This trial works with dozens of clinics and providers through three partnering organizations: The University of Utah, Intermountain Healthcare, and John's Hopkins Medicine. Below you will find information about the organization with a link to participating locations.
The OPTIMIZE Trial is a national pragmatic trial that compares two approaches for treating patients with acute back pain in a primary care setting.
Two Locations Along the Wasatch Front
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah
University of Utah Health is the Mountain West's only academic health care system, combining excellence in patient care, the latest in medical research, and teaching to provide leading-edge medicine in a caring and personal setting. The system provides care for Utahns and residents of five surrounding states in a referral area encompassing more than 10 percent of the continental United States.
Whether it's for routine care or highly specialized treatment in orthopedics, stroke, ophthalmology, cancer, radiology, fertility, cardiology, genetic-related diseases, organ transplant, or more than 200 other medical specialties, University of Utah Health offers the latest technology and advancements, including some services available nowhere else in the region.
As part of that system, University Hospitals & Clinics relies on more than 1,400 board-certified physicians and more than 5,000 health care professionals who staff four hospitals.
Participating University of Utah locations
Salt Lake City, UT: Intermountain Healthcare
Intermountain Healthcare (IH) is a not-for-profit health system based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 22 hospitals, a broad range of clinics and services, health insurance plans from SelectHealth, and about 1,400 employed primary care and secondary care physicians at more than 185 clinics.The Intermountain Medical Group is the largest provider in the region with 34,000 employees serving the healthcare needs of Utah and southern Idaho.
IH is widely recognized as a leader in clinical quality improvement and in efficient healthcare delivery. Intermountain's mission is to continue "helping people live the healthiest lives possible" through the provision of healthcare services to communities in the region. IH seeks to engage patients in decisions about their treatments, listening to them and respecting their preferences.Furthermore, IH passionately encourages lifelong healthy habits for their patients to reduce the need for medical interventions.
Participating Intermountain Healthcare locations
East Coast Locations
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) is an integrated health enterprise and one of the leading health care systems in the United States. Johns Hopkins Medicine unites physicians and scientists of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the organizations, health professionals and facilities of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System.
JHM operates six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers, and 39 primary and specialty care outpatient sites. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, opened in 1889, has been ranked number one in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for 22 years, most recently in 2013.
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians (JHCP) is a network of primary and specialty practices located in urban and suburban locations throughout Maryland and Greater Washington D.C. Among the various outpatient practices delivering primary and specialty care, JHCP has over 375 providers, serving over 230,000 unique patients. JHCP’s primary care and specialty practices are located in a variety of racially and economically diverse settings
Interested in participating?
We are currently looking for volunteers that suffer from lower back pain.
Providers
Do you work with patients that have lower back pain?