Characteristics, course and outcome of patients receiving physiotherapy in primary health care in Norway: design of a longitudinal observational project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physiotherapists (PTs) in primary health care manage patients with large variation in medical diagnosis, age, functional status, disability and prognosis. Lack of knowledge and systematically collected data from patients treated by PTs in primary health care has prompted this longitudinal observational physiotherapy project. This paper aims to describe a method for developing a database of patients managed by PTs in primary health care, with the main purpose to study patients' characteristics, treatment courses and prognostic factors for favourable outcome.

Methods

This is a longitudinal observational project, following patients through their physiotherapy treatment periods in primary health care in Norway and until one year after inclusion. The project involves b

SUBMITTER: Evensen KAI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6277993 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature