Is a government-regulated rehabilitation guideline more effective than general practitioner education or preferred-provider rehabilitation in promoting recovery from acute whiplash-associated disorders? A pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of a government-regulated rehabilitation guideline compared with education and activation by general practitioners, and to a preferred-provider insurance-based rehabilitation programme on self-reported global recovery from acute whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) grade I-II.

Design

Pragmatic randomised clinical trial with blinded outcome assessment.

Setting

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation clinics and general practitioners in Ontario, Canada.

Participants

340 participants with acute WAD grade I and II. Potential participants were sampled from a large automobile insurer when reporting a traffic injury.

Interventions

Participants were randomised to receive one of three protocols: government-regulated rehabilitation

SUBMITTER: Cote P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347946 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature