Stratified care for patients with sciatica and suspected sciatica in primary care: the scopic trial protocol (scopic - sciatica outcomes in primary care)
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Stratified care for patients with sciatica and suspected sciatica in primary care: the scopic trial protocol (scopic - sciatica outcomes in primary care)
Methods In a pragmatic RCT with 470 primary care sciatica patients, participants will be randomised to stratified care or usual care. Stratification will be based on a combination of 4 clinical indicators (interference with workability, pain below the knee, intense leg pain and sensory deficits) that predict referral to spinal specialists and 8 prognostic indicators of persistent disability (ST...
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Copyright C 2014 by Korean Society of Spine Surgery This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Asian Spine Journal • pISSN 1976-1902 e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trials
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-16-s2-p156