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BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH IN CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 649-661Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2013.10.005
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Low back pain; Stratified care; Subgrouping; Targeted treatment
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- National Institute for Health Research [NIHR-RP-011-015] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [NIHR-RP-011-015] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
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Stratified care for back pain involves targeting treatment to subgroups of patients based on their key characteristics such as prognostic factors, likely response to treatment and underlying mechanisms. It aims to tailor therapeutic decisions in ways that maximise treatment benefit, reduce harm and increase health-care efficiency by offering the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. From being called the 'Holy Grail' of back pain research over a decade ago, stratified care is becoming the zeitgeist in research and clinical practice. In this chapter, we introduce and evaluate the quality and underpinning evidence for three examples of stratified care for back pain to highlight their general principles, research design issues and clinical practice implications. We include consideration of their merits for implementation in practice. We conclude with a set of remaining, key research questions. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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