Enhanced implementation of low back pain guidelines in general practice: study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines may improve treatment quality, but the uptake of guideline recommendations is often incomplete and slow. Recently new low back pain guidelines are being launched in Denmark. The guidelines are considered to reduce personal and public costs. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether a complex, multifaceted implementation strategy of the low back pain guidelines will reduce secondary care referral and improve patient outcomes compared to the usual simple implementation strategy.

Methods/design

In a two-armed cluster randomised trial, 100 general practices (clusters) and 2,700 patients aged 18 to 65 years from the North Denmark region will be included. Practices are randomly allocated 1:1 to a simple or a complex impleme

SUBMITTER: Riis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015716 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature