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Tyler Cope

Clinical Research Associate II
Population Health Sciences

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Sequenced Care Pathway vs Pain Navigator Pathway for Veterans With Low Back Pain: The AIM-Back Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal article JAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2026 IMPORTANCE: Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability, and there is limited evidence from clinical practice to support the effectiveness of alternative care models. OBJECTIVE: To compare a sequenced care pathway (SCP) with a pain navigator pathw ... Full text Link to item Cite

Embedding Implementation Science in Clinical Trials: A Framework for Academic-Life Science Partnerships.

Journal article Pharmaceut Med · November 2025 Implementation science offers a systematic approach to bridging the gap between research and clinical practice by promoting the adoption, scale-up, and sustainment of evidence-based therapies. Historically, academic implementation science efforts in the US ... Full text Link to item Cite

Novel approaches to recruiting clinical sites for embedded pragmatic clinical trials: Insights from the AIM-back trial.

Journal article Contemp Clin Trials Commun · June 2025 BACKGROUND: Embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs) assess interventions in real-world settings. Best practices for recruiting clinical sites for ePCTs are unknown, especially for sites that aren't known to the study team or familiar with clinical resea ... Full text Link to item Cite

If You Build It, Will They Come? Patient and Provider Use of a Novel Hybrid Telehealth Care Pathway for Low Back Pain.

Journal article Phys Ther · February 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the referrals and use of a hybrid care model for low back pain that includes on-site care by physical therapists, physical activity training, and psychologically informed practice (PiP) delivered by tele ... Full text Link to item Cite

Telehealth delivery of physical therapist-led interventions for persons with chronic low back pain in underserved communities: lessons from pragmatic clinical trials.

Journal article Front Pain Res (Lausanne) · 2024 In this perspective, we present our experience developing and conducting two pragmatic clinical trials investigating physical therapist-led telehealth strategies for persons with chronic low back pain. Both trials, the BeatPain Utah and AIM-Back trials, ar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neurorehabilitation in paraplegic patients with an active powered exoskeleton (Ekso)

Journal article Digital Medicine · October 2016 ABSTRACTBackground and Objectives:Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a s ... Full text Cite