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Management of Shoulder Pain in Primary Care : A Review
Abstract Importance Shoulder pain is a common and disabling condition most often managed in primary care. This review provides an evidence-based update on the diagnosis and management of shoulder pain to support clinical decision-making and improve patient outcomes. Observations Shoulder pain arises from benign, self-limiting soft-tissue disorders or rare but serious causes. In primary care, most cases are nontraumatic and involve periarticular soft tissues.
How Do Australians Manage Diagnostic Testing Risks? Focus Groups Linked to a Model of Behaviour Change
1 Background All diagnostic tests and screening carry risks. Risks include overdiagnosis and subsequent unnecessary treatment, which may lead to adverse health outcomes, loss of quality of life, psychological burdens, costs and time off work [1]. Many testing decisions require patient understanding and deliberation [2] and come down to patients' value judgements and preferences [3].
Association of state‐level prescription drug monitoring program implementation with opioid prescribing transitions in primary care in Australia
1 What is already known about this subject Inconsistent effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on prescribing have been found across different studies. There is little understanding of how PDMP use impacts prescribing for individual patients, including the prescribing of nonmonitored medications. PDMP use may lead to a rise in prescribing of alternative medications that are not monitored, known as a substitution effect.
Referral patterns for people with musculoskeletal complaints in general practice: An analysis from an Australian primary care database
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Patterns of Imaging Requests By General Practitioners for People With Musculoskeletal Complaints: An Analysis From a Primary Care Database
INTRODUCTION Diagnostic imaging for the majority of people with nonspecific regional musculoskeletal complaints has limited value. First, degenerative findings are common in asymptomatic people and increase with age. For example, a systematic review including 33 studies (n = 3,110) found vertebral disc degeneration is present in approximately 37% and 96% of asymptomatic 20- and 80-year-olds, respectively (1).
Patterns of imaging requests by general practitioners for people with musculoskeletal complaints: An analysis from a primary care database
Original Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/acr.25189. Get access to the full version of this article. View access options below.
Optimising treatment for patients with rotator cuff disorders
1 Buchbinder R Green S Youd JM Corticosteroid injections for shoulder pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003; 1CD004016 Physiotherapist-prescribed exercise programmes and subacromial corticosteroid injections are mainstays of management of rotator cuff disorders. Systematic reviews have consistently found short-term benefits of corticosteroid injection in relieving pain.
How do patients and the public understand overtesting and overdiagnosis? A protocol for a thematic meta-synthesis of qualitative research
How do patients and the public understand overtesting and overdiagnosis?
Programme frequency, type, time and duration do not explain the effects of balance exercise in older adults: a systematic review with a meta-regression analysis
Programme frequency, type, time and duration do not explain the effects of balance exercise in older adults: a systematic review with a meta-regression analysis Free Melanie K Farlie1,2, Lauren Robins1,2, Romi Haas1,2, Jennifer L Keating1, Elizabeth Molloy3, Terry P Haines1,2 1 Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia 2 Allied Health Research Unit, Monash Health, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia 3 Department of Medical Education, The...
Programme frequency, type, time and duration do not explain the effects of balance exercise in older adults: a systematic review with a meta-regression analysis | British Journal of Sports Medicine
Objective The objective of this systematic review was to examine the effects of different balance exercise interventions compared with non-balance exercise controls on balance task performance in older adults. Data sources Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, EMBASE, Scopus and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched until July 2017.
The effectiveness of research implementation strategies for promoting evidence-informed policy and management decisions in healthcare: a systematic review | Implementation Science | Full Text
This review found that there are numerous implementation strategies that can be utilised to promote evidence-informed policy and management decisions in healthcare. These relate to the ‘authority effect’ from a simple low-cost policy brief and knowledge improvement from a complex multifaceted workshop with ongoing technical assistance and distribution of instructional digital materials [46, 47]. The resource intensity of these strategies was relatively low.
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