Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project).

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Abstract

We developed the SupportPrim PT clinical decision support system (CDSS) using the artificial intelligence method case-based reasoning to support personalised musculoskeletal pain management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the CDSS for patients in physiotherapy practice. A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in primary care in Norway. We randomised 44 physiotherapists to (1) use the CDSS alongside usual care or (2) usual care alone. The CDSS provided personalised treatment recommendations based on a case base of 105 patients with positive outcomes. During the trial, the case-based reasoning system did not have an active learning capability; therefore, the case base size remained the same throughout the study. We included 724 patient

SUBMITTER: Granviken F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12004987 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature