Evaluation of a risk-stratification strategy to improve primary care for low back pain: the MATCH cluster randomized trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite numerous options for treating back pain and the increasing healthcare resources devoted to this problem, the prevalence and impact of back pain-related disability has not improved. It is now recognized that psychosocial factors, as well as physical factors, are important predictors of poor outcomes for back pain. A promising new approach that matches treatments to the physical and psychosocial obstacles to recovery, the STarT Back risk stratification approach, improved patients' physical function while reducing costs of care in the United Kingdom (UK). This trial evaluates implementation of this strategy in a United States (US) healthcare setting.

Methods

Six large primary care clinics in an integrated healthcare system in Washington State were block-rando

SUBMITTER: Cherkin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4995645 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature