Stratified Primary Care for Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-02-24
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The SPLIT project evaluates the implementation of a stratified model of care for people with low back pain patients who consulted primary care.This involves evaluating the process of implementation as well as patient level outcomes.

The project consists of two phases: First, a before-after study comprising two sequential but independent cohort studies will be conducted to compare the outcomes and cost-effectiveness of current practice with the SPLIT stratified model of care. Second, an implementation strategy will be developed based on the results of a survey regarding determinants of current practice, and two focus groups concerning the barriers and facilitators for the implementation of the SPLIT stratified model of care.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
• Collaborators: NOVA Medical School; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
• Treatments: Analgesics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of Low back Pain of any duration;

• Age between 18 and 65 years;

• Able to read and speak the Portuguese language.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinical signs of infection;

• Clinical signs of tumor;

• Clinical signs of osteoporosis;

• Clinical signs of fracture;

• Clinical signs of structural deformity;

• Clinical signs of inflammatory disorder;

• Clinical signs of radicular syndrome;

• Clinical signs of cauda equine syndrome;

• Clinical signs of severe depression or other psychiatric condition;

• Pregnant women;

• Patients that undergone a back surgery in the prior 6 months;

• Patients that received any type of conservative treatment in the prior 3 months.