Characteristics of older adults with back pain associated with choice of first primary care provider: a cross-sectional analysis from the BACE-N cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe characteristics of older adults with back pain in primary care, and to assess associations between patient characteristics and type of first primary care provider (general practitioner (GP), physiotherapist (PT) or chiropractor).

Design

Cross-sectional analysis from the Back Complaints in the Elders-Norway cohort study.

Setting

Norwegian GP, PT and chiropractic primary care centres.

Participants

Patients aged ≥55 years seeking Norwegian primary care with a new episode of back pain were invited to participate. Between April 2015 and February 2020, we included 452 patients: 127 first visited a GP, 130 first visited a PT and 195 first visited a chiropractor.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

For the first objective, the outcome m

SUBMITTER: Vigdal ON 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8451307 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature