Early revision for total hip arthroplasty is a serious adverse outcome. There are multiple contributing risk factors for early revision. Risk factors can exist at the level of the surgeon and the level of the institution. The primary research question of this study was to [...]
Non-drug interventions are recommended for chronic condition prevention and management yet are underused in clinical practice. Understanding barriers and enablers to using non-drug interventions may help implement non-drug interventions in primary care. We aimed to conduct an overview of reviews to identify and summarise common [...]
We found strong evidence that health literacy–sensitive formatting supported participant understanding and recall of diagnostic accuracy information for a COVID-19 RAT. More than double the participants in the intervention group indicated that they understood what the specificity meant relative to those in the usual care [...]
Patient outcomes following low-trauma hip fracture are suboptimal resulting in increased healthcare costs and poor functional outcomes at 1 year. Providing early and intensive in-hospital physiotherapy could help improve patient outcomes and reduce costs following hip fracture surgery. The HIP fracture Supplemental Therapy to Enhance [...]
Strategies to enhance clinicians’ adherence to validated imaging decision rules and increase the appropriateness of imaging remain unclear. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of various implementation strategies for increasing clinicians’ use of five validated imaging decision rules (Ottawa Ankle Rules, [...]
Analytical performance specifications (APS) are used for decisions about the required analytical quality of pathology tests to meet clinical needs. The Milan models, based on clinical outcome, biological variation, or state of the art, were developed to provide a framework for setting APS. An approach [...]
Placebo control trials are the gold standard for determining the true therapeutic effect of interventions. However, placebo trials commonly face difficulties in participant recruitment due to a lack of willingness to participate especially in surgical placebo trials due to its inherently invasive nature and higher [...]
The management of low back pain commonly includes pharmacological management. Some clinical practice guidelines for managing low back pain now recommend avoiding some medicines, such as opioid analgesics and gabapentinoids (pregabalin, gabapentin), as the benefit often does not outweigh the harms. In people with work-related [...]
Participants aged 18 years and over, with and without low back pain, were recruited via the social media channel Facebook, to view either a humorous video, a neutral video, or to no intervention. The videos were delivered online, explained evidence-based management for low back pain, [...]
Workers with low back pain (LBP) frequently seek care from physiotherapists. We sought to identify patterns of physiotherapy attendance and factors associated with these patterns in Australian workers with accepted compensation claims for LBP. We included workers with accepted workers' compensation claims for LBP from [...]