Implementation of a community-based, physiotherapy-led, multidisciplinary model of care for the management of knee osteoarthritis: protocol for a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is a gap between the care people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) should receive according to evidence-based guidelines and the care they do receive. This feasibility study aims to test the feasibility of developing and implementing a codesigned, physiotherapy-led, multidisciplinary, evidence-based model of care for knee OA, among community physiotherapy practices in Australia, where community practice is defined as a professional physiotherapy business that is not controlled or paid for by the government.

Methods and analysis

A mixed-methods quasi-experimental (pre/postintervention) study. In the preintervention phase, all consented physiotherapists working in nine metropolitan-based, community physiotherapy practices, and 26 patients with knee OA will be re

SUBMITTER: Livings R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7394177 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature