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The Benefit of Structured Triage of Patients in the Primary Health Care Seeking Care for Low Back Pain

NCT03368521 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2017-12-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to investigate if a low back pain screening tool is helpful for the caregivers to direct the rehabilitation in a more efficient way, at an earlier stage. Primary Health care centers in the municipality of Halmstad, Sweden will be enrolled to participate in the study as either "Control" or "intervention". The primary Health care centers who are enrolled taking part in the intervention, will use the provided screening tool when taking care of patients seeking care for low back pain. Scorings from the screening tool will "label" the patients as one of Three pre-defined risk levels. The caregiver will then use the provided risk level when deciding how to proceed the rehabilitation. Based on the risk level identified, the patient is directed to one of three levels of treatments - including simple advice; physiotherapy; or multimodal rehabilitation. The screening tool is used as a complement to the examination, allowing the physiotherapist /GP to decide how to proceed with rehabilitation using the back screening tool, together with Clinical examinations. The Control Group consists of patients recruited when seeking care for back pain at a Primary Health Care service who has been randomly selected as "Control". The care givers at the Control primary Health care will conduct as usual, not using the back pain screening tool in their Clinical examinations.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Back pain screening test

The care giver use the screening tool in order to score the back patient to three levels of risk. For each level of risk, one suggested type of care is provided; 1) simple advise; 2) physiotherapy; 3) multimodal rehabilitation. highest risk level includes multimodal intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • FoU Center Spenshult

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stefan Bergman, PhD · FoU Center Spenshult

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
67 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-01
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2019-06-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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