Validation of the German version of the STarT-MSK-Tool: A cohort study with patients from physiotherapy clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The STarT-MSK-Tool is an adaptation of the well established STarT-Back-Tool, used to risk-stratify patients with a wider range of musculoskeletal presentations.

Objective

To formally translate and cross-culturally adapt the Keele STarT-MSK risk stratification tool into German (STarT-MSKG) and to establish its reliability and validity.

Methods

A formal, multi-step, forward and backward translation approach was used. To assess validity patients aged ≥18 years, with acute, subacute or chronic musculoskeletal presentations in the lumbar spine, hip, knee, shoulder, or neck were included. The prospective cohort was used with initial data collected electronically at the point-of-consultation. Retest and 6-month follow-up questionnaires were sent by email. Test-ret

SUBMITTER: Karstens S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9249194 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature