The Alberta Back Care Pathway: The feasibility of implementing a novel care pathway to improve low back pain management for family physicians in primary care
Brandyn Powelske, Alice Kongsted, Allyson Jones, Gregory Kawchuk · 2024
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Brandyn Powelske, Alice Kongsted, Allyson Jones, and Gregory Kawchuk test whether a new back pain care pathway can take root in Alberta family practice. Family doctors often reach for scans, injections, and drugs that guidelines discourage, partly because proven options like education and exercise programs go unfunded in the public system.
The pathway pays for guideline-based care across five streams of back pain, from fresh episodes to stubborn chronic cases. Rolled out in two city doctor networks during the pandemic, it drew in a modest share of eligible physicians. Most referrals flowed to a group education and exercise program for chronic pain. Use stayed low to middling after a year. The authors judge the rollout feasible and mostly serving chronic cases.
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| CREATOR | Brandyn Powelske, Alice Kongsted, Allyson Jones, Gregory Kawchuk |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |