The Italian Osteopathic Practitioners Estimates and RAtes (OPERA) study: How osteopaths work

• Francesco Cerritelli ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶Membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

  Affiliation Clinical-based Human Research Department, Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2963-9620

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• Giacomo Consorti ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: giacomo.consorti@gmail.com

  Affiliations Clinical-based Human Research Department, Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy, Research Department of the Centre pour l’Etude, la Recherche et la Diffusion Osteopathiques (C.E.R.D.O.), Rome, Italy, Registro degli Osteopati d’Italia, Milan, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3085-283X

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• Patrick L. S. van Dun,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Belgium National Centre, Foundation COME Collaboration, Mechelen, Belgium

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• Jorge E. Esteves,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gulf National Centre, Foundation COME Collaboration, Riyadh, KSA, University College of Osteopathy, London, United Kingdom

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• Paola Sciomachen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Registro degli Osteopati d’Italia, Milan, Italy

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• Massimo Valente,

  Roles Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Clinical-based Human Research Department, Foundation COME Collaboration, Pescara, Italy

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• Eleonora Lacorte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

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• Nicola Vanacore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

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• on behalf of the OPERA-IT Group

  ¶Membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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