ORION practitioner recruitment to begin in 2016

In the first half of 2016, ORION will be inviting all registered osteopaths across Australia to participate in the ORION PBRN database. An invitation pack consisting of both a short practitioner questionnaire and consent form will be emailed to all OA members for recruitment. It is important that as many osteopaths participate in the ORION Project as possible in order to ensure the rigorous and impact of the project. This will also be your opportunity to ensure your practice details, perspective and experience are counted in this ground-breaking study of national daily routine care in osteopathy across Australia.

Please do look out for your invitation to particiapte in ORION and visit this site regularly for updates, interesting information and other developments regarding the ORION PBRN initiative. We look forward to officially welcoming you to the ORION Project in due course.

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The ORION Steering Committee

The ORION Project has recently gained ethics approval from the UTS Human Research Ethics Committee and has established an ORION Steering Committee consisting of both ARCCIM researchers/methodologists and osteopaths.

At present, the ORION Steering Committee is busy finalising and piloting the initial ORION practitioner questionnaire which will be distributed via the website and email to all registered osteopaths across Australia in the first half of 2016.

Please do look out for the email and other promotions regarding ORION and visit this site regularly for updates, interesting information and other developments regarding the ORION PBRN initiative.

●●●●● RECRUITMENT TO BEGIN IN 2016 ●●●●●

In the first half of 2016, ORION will be inviting all registered osteopaths across Australia to participate in the ORION PBRN database. An invitation pack consisting of both a short practitioner questionnaire and consent form will be emailed to all OA members for recruitment. It is important that as many osteopaths participate in the ORION Project as possible in order to ensure the rigorous and impact of the project. This will also be your opportunity to ensure your practice details, perspective and experience are counted in this ground-breaking study of national daily routine care in osteopathy across Australia.

The ORION Steering Committee

The ORION Project has recently gained ethics approval from the UTS Human Research Ethics Committee and has established an ORION Steering Committee consisting of both ARCCIM researchers/methodologists and osteopaths.

At present, the ORION Steering Committee is busy finalising and piloting the initial ORION practitioner questionnaire which will be distributed via the website and email to all registered osteopaths across Australia in the first half of 2016.

Please do look out for the email and other promotions regarding ORION and visit this site regularly for updates, interesting information and other developments regarding the ORION PBRN initiative.

●●●●● RECRUITMENT TO BEGIN IN 2016 ●●●●●

In the first half of 2016, ORION will be inviting all registered osteopaths across Australia to participate in the ORION PBRN database. An invitation pack consisting of both a short practitioner questionnaire and consent form will be emailed to all OA members for recruitment. It is important that as many osteopaths participate in the ORION Project as possible in order to ensure the rigorous and impact of the project. This will also be your opportunity to ensure your practice details, perspective and experience are counted in this ground-breaking study of national daily routine care in osteopathy across Australia.