SupportPrim-a computerized clinical decision support system for stratified care for patients with musculoskeletal pain complaints in general practice: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
Background Musculoskeletal disorders represented 149 million years lived with disability world-wide in 2019 and are the main cause of years lived with disability worldwide.
Lervik LCN +11 more
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Key Points Question Is risk-stratified care more effective than usual care for patients with low back pain seeking care in the Military Health System? Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 270 adults with low back pain, the risk-stratified care ...
Rhon DI +7 more
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Feasibility of delivering and evaluating stratified care integrated with telehealth ('Rapid Stratified Telehealth') for patients with low back pain: protocol for a feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
Introduction Long waiting time is an important barrier to accessing recommended care for low back pain (LBP) in Australia’s public health system. This study describes the protocol for a randomised controlled trial (RCT) that aims to establish the ...
Zadro JR +8 more
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Implementing stratified care for acute low back pain in primary care using the STarT Back instrument: a process evaluation within the context of a large pragmatic cluster randomized trial. [PDF]
Background Although risk-stratifying patients with acute lower back pain is a promising approach for improving long-term outcomes, efforts to implement stratified care in the US healthcare system have had limited success.
Middleton A +5 more
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Personalized Risk-Stratified Cancer Follow-Up Care: Its Potential for Healthier Survivors, Happier Clinicians, and Lower Costs [PDF]
The growth in the number of cancer survivors in the face of projected health-care workforce shortages will challenge the US health-care system in delivering follow-up care.
Deborah K. Mayer, Catherine M. Alfano
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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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Background The STarT MSK cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigated the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of risk-based stratified primary care versus usual care for patients with back, neck, shoulder, knee or multi-site pain.
Benjamin Saunders +7 more
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General Practitioners' and patients' perceptions towards stratified care: a theory informed investigation. [PDF]
BackgroundStratified primary care involves changing General Practitioners’ (GPs) clinical behaviour in treating patients, away from the current stepped care approach to instead identifying early treatment options that are matched to patients’ risk of ...
Saunders B +5 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]
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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Stratified care to prevent chronic low back pain in high-risk patients: The TARGET trial. A multi-site pragmatic cluster randomized trial. [PDF]
Delitto A +17 more
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