Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: qualitative findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2020 Background Stratified care involves subgrouping patients based on key characteristics, e.g. prognostic risk, and matching these subgroups to appropriate early treatment options. The STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT)
Benjamin Saunders +7 more
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Stratified care integrated with eHealth versus usual primary care physiotherapy in patients with neck and/or shoulder complaints: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021 Background Neck and shoulder complaints are common in primary care physiotherapy. These patients experience pain and disability, resulting in high societal costs due to, for example, healthcare use and work absence. Content and intensity of physiotherapy
Mark L. van Tilburg +8 more
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The effectiveness of a stratified care model for non-specific low back pain in Danish primary care compared to current practice: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
Trials, 2018 Background Prior studies indicate that stratified care for low back pain results in better clinical outcome and reduced costs in healthcare compared to current practice.
Lars Morso +8 more
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Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2020 Background Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain from the five most common presentations to primary care (back, neck, shoulder, knee or multi-site pain), where the majority of patients are managed, is a costly global health challenge.
J. C. Hill +13 more
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Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology, 2013 Stratified care for back pain involves targeting treatment to subgroups of patients based on their key characteristics such as prognostic factors, likely response to treatment and underlying mechanisms. It aims to tailor therapeutic decisions in ways that maximise treatment benefit, reduce harm and increase health-care efficiency by offering the right ...
Foster, N. +3 more
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Health Technology Assessment, 2020 Background: Sciatica has a substantial impact on patients and society. Current care is ‘stepped’, comprising an initial period of simple measures of advice and analgesia, for most patients, commonly followed by physiotherapy, and then by more intensive ...
Nadine E Foster +15 more
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Integrating clinician support with intervention design as part of a programme testing stratified care for musculoskeletal pain in general practice [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2021 Background Stratified care involves subgrouping patients based on key characteristics, e.g. prognostic risk, and matching these subgroups to early treatment options.
Joanne Protheroe +7 more
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Patients’ and clinicians’ perspectives on a ‘fast-track’ pathway for patients with sciatica in primary care: qualitative findings from the SCOPiC stratified care trial [PDF]
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2020 Background Sciatica is common and associated with significant impacts for the individual and society. The SCOPiC randomised controlled trial (RCT) (trial registration: ISRCTN75449581 ) tested stratified primary care for sciatica by subgrouping patients ...
Benjamin Saunders +4 more
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The clinical and cost-effectiveness of stratified care for patients with sciatica: the SCOPiC randomised controlled trial protocol (ISRCTN75449581) [PDF]
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2017 Background Sciatica has a substantial impact on patients, and is associated with high healthcare and societal costs. Although there is variation in the clinical management of sciatica, the current model of care usually involves an initial period of ‘wait
Nadine E. Foster +14 more
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Professional barriers and facilitators to using stratified care approaches for managing non-specific low back pain: a qualitative study with Canadian physiotherapists and chiropractors [PDF]
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2019 Background Recent clinical practice guidelines for the management of non-specific low back pain (LBP) recommend using stratified care approaches. To date, no study has assessed barriers and facilitators for health professionals in using stratified care ...
Fadi M. AL Zoubi +4 more
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