The Adolescent Knee Pain (AK-Pain) prognostic tool: protocol for a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Background: One in three children and adolescents experience knee pain. Approximately one in two adolescents with knee pain will continue to experience pain even five years later and have low quality of life. The general practitioner (GP) is the first point of contact for children and adolescents with knee pain in Denmark. There is a variety of treatments being delivered in general practice, despite similar symptoms and patients' characteristics. This suggests a need to support the GPs in identifying those at high risk of a poor outcome early on, in order to better allocate resources. The aim of this study is to develop a user-friendly prognostic tool to support GPs' management of children and adolescents' knee pain. Methods: A preliminary set of items in the prognostic tool were identifie

SUBMITTER: Andreucci A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7194341 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature