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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_4 | Pages 5 - 5
1 Jan 2013
Ngunjiri A Underwood M Patel S
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Aims

To develop a decision aid - Decision Support Package (DSP) - that will provide low back pain (LBP) patients, and their treating physiotherapists with information on the treatment options available to the patients

To develop a training package for physiotherapists on how to use the DSP

To encourage and evaluate the informed shared decision making (ISDM) process between patients and physiotherapists during consultation.

Method

We developed a DSP informed by existing research and collaboration with physiotherapists, patients and experts in the field of decision aids and LBP. We did six pieces of exploratory work: literature review; 2009 NICE LBP guidelines review; qualitative screening of transcripts of interviews of LBP patients; focus groups (patients); nominal group (physiotherapists), and Delphi study (experts). We collated these data to develop the DSP. We also developed a training package for physiotherapists.