Research designs and instruments to detect physiotherapy overuse of low-value care services in low back pain management: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The provision of low-value physiotherapy services in low back pain management is a known but complex phenomenon. Thus, this scoping review aims to systematically map existing research designs and instruments of the field in order to discuss the current state of research methodologies and contextualize results to domains and perspectives of a referred low-value care typology. Ultimately, results will be illustrated and transferred to conditions of the German health care setting as care delivery conditions of physiotherapy in Germany face unique particularities.

Methods

The development of this review is guided by the analysis framework of Arksey and O'Malley. A two-stage, audited search strategy was performed in Medline (PubMed), Web of Science, and google scholar.

SUBMITTER: Kuhn L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949696 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature