The effect of behavioural interventions on care for low back pain in the Emergency Department (NUDG-ED): a randomised trial.

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Recruiting

Conditions: low back pain
Musculoskeletal - Other muscular and skeletal disorders
Emergency medicine - Other emergency care

Registration Number: ACTRN12623001000695

Lead Sponsor: The University of Sydney

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 2416

Inclusion Criteria

Clinician participants will be ED staff at study sites who are involved in the care of patients presenting to ED with a primary complaint of low back pain. This includes physicians (Junior Medical Officer, Registrar, Consultant), nurses, and physiotherapists).

Patient participants will be 18 years or older, presenting with low back pain and diagnosed with back pain due to a musculoskeletal condition.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients diagnosed with a non-musculoskeletal condition e.g. renal colic.
People who required a translator service, and those without mobile number recorded will be excluded from the patient survey.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The proportion of encounters for back pain due to a musculoskeletal condition where a person received a non-indicated imaging test, an opioid at discharge, or both, in ED over a 9-month period. Clinician researchers will perform chart reviews every month using a standardised form for all participants who present with back pain and receive imaging to understand and code if it was non-indicated imaging (that is, imaging provided in the absence of clinical features of serious pathology). Opioids at discharge for patients with low back pain will be coded as low-value. Clinician researchers will screen discharge letters of all participants. <br>[ Over a 3 month baseline period and 6 month intervention period]

Secondary Outcome Measures