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Exploring how pain leads to productivity loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study (2015)
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Wilkie, R., Hay, E. M., Croft, P., & Pransky, G. (2015). Exploring how pain leads to productivity loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study. PloS one, 10(4), Article e0120042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120042

OBJECTIVE: Osteoarthritis pain has become a leading cause of decreased productivity and work disability in older workers, a major concern in primary care. How osteoarthritis pain leads to decreased productivity at work is unclear; the aim of this stu... Read More about Exploring how pain leads to productivity loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study.

Implementing Stratified Primary Care Management for Low Back Pain: Cost-Utility Analysis Alongside a Prospective, Population-Based, Sequential Comparison Study (2015)
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Whitehurst, D. G. T., Bryan, S., Lewis, M., Hay, E. M., Mullis, R., & Foster, N. E. (2015). Implementing Stratified Primary Care Management for Low Back Pain: Cost-Utility Analysis Alongside a Prospective, Population-Based, Sequential Comparison Study. Spine, 40(6), 405-414. https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0000000000000770

Study Design. Within-study cost-utility analysis. Objective. To explore the cost-utility of implementing stratified care for low back pain (LBP) in general practice, compared with usual care, within risk-defined patient subgroups (that is, pat... Read More about Implementing Stratified Primary Care Management for Low Back Pain: Cost-Utility Analysis Alongside a Prospective, Population-Based, Sequential Comparison Study.

Self-management approaches for osteoarthritis in the hand: a 2×2 factorial randomised trial. (2015)
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Dziedzic, K., Nicholls, E., Hill, S., Hammond, A., Handy, J., Thomas, E., & Hay, E. (2015). Self-management approaches for osteoarthritis in the hand: a 2×2 factorial randomised trial. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(1), 108 - 118. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203938

BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability in older adults. Evidence of effectiveness for self-management of hand osteoarthritis is lacking. METHODS: In this randomised, factorial trial, we evaluated the effectiveness of joint prot... Read More about Self-management approaches for osteoarthritis in the hand: a 2×2 factorial randomised trial..

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow: (2014)
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Chesterton, L. S., Lewis, A. M., Sim, J., Mallen, C. D., Mason, E. E., Hay, E. M., & van der Windt, D. A. (2014). Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow:. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 1458 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2013-f5160rep

Can transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), as a patient controlled adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow, provide superior pain relief to primary care management alone.

Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial trials (2014)
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Oppong, R., Jowett, S., Nicholls, E., Whitehurst, D., Hill, S., Hammond, A., …Dziedzic, K. (2015). Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial trials. Rheumatology, 54(5), 876 - 883. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu389

OBJECTIVES: Evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of joint protection and hand exercises for the management of hand OA is not well established. The primary aim of this study is to assess the cost-effectiveness (cost-utility) of these management o... Read More about Joint protection and hand exercises for hand osteoarthritis: an economic evaluation comparing methods for the analysis of factorial trials.

Quality of care for OA: the effect of a point-of-care consultation recording template. (2014)
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Edwards, J. J., Jordan, K. P., Peat, G., Bedson, J., Croft, P. R., Hay, E. M., & Dziedzic, K. S. (2015). Quality of care for OA: the effect of a point-of-care consultation recording template. Rheumatology, 54(5), 844-853. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu411

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to determine the feasibility of introducing a computerized template for identifying quality of care during an OA consultation, describe quality of OA care in practices in which the template was introduced and as... Read More about Quality of care for OA: the effect of a point-of-care consultation recording template..

Anticipated significant work limitation in primary care consulters with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study (2014)
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Wilkie, R., Phillipson, C., Hay, E. M., & Pransky, G. (2014). Anticipated significant work limitation in primary care consulters with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open, 4(9), Article e005221. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005221

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of expected work limitations (EWL) prior to future retirement age in osteoarthritis consulters, and the associated health, sociodemographic and workplace factors. DESIGN: Population-based prospective cohort study... Read More about Anticipated significant work limitation in primary care consulters with osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study.

Implementing the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines: a mixed methods study and cluster randomised trial of a model osteoarthritis consultation in primary care - the Management of OsteoArthritis In Consultations (MOSAICS) study protocol (2014)
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Dziedzic, K. S., Healey, E. L., Porcheret, M., Nio Ong, B., Main, C. J., Jordan, K. P., …Hay, E. M. (2014). Implementing the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines: a mixed methods study and cluster randomised trial of a model osteoarthritis consultation in primary care - the Management of OsteoArthritis In Consultations (MOSAICS) study protocol. Implementation Science, 9, Article 95. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0095-y

Backgroundhere is as yet no evidence on the feasibility of implementing recommendations from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) osteoarthritis (OA) guidelines in primary care, or of the effect these recommendations on the con... Read More about Implementing the NICE osteoarthritis guidelines: a mixed methods study and cluster randomised trial of a model osteoarthritis consultation in primary care - the Management of OsteoArthritis In Consultations (MOSAICS) study protocol.

Rationale, design and methods of the Study of Work and Pain (SWAP): a cluster randomised controlled trial testing the addition of a vocational advice service to best current primary care for patients with musculoskeletal pain (ISRCTN 52269669) (2014)
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Bishop, A., Wynne-Jones, G., Lawton, S. A., van der Windt, D., Main, C., Sowden, G., …Foster, N. E. (2014). Rationale, design and methods of the Study of Work and Pain (SWAP): a cluster randomised controlled trial testing the addition of a vocational advice service to best current primary care for patients with musculoskeletal pain (ISRCTN 52269669). BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-15-232

AGREEMENT AMONG THERAPISTS WHEN DIAGNOSING LOW BACK-RELATED LEG PAIN (2014)
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Stynes, S., Konstantinou, K., Dunn, K., Lewis, M., & Hay, E. (2014). AGREEMENT AMONG THERAPISTS WHEN DIAGNOSING LOW BACK-RELATED LEG PAIN. Orthopaedic Proceedings, 96-B(S4), 4-4

Background Pain with radiation to the leg is a common presentation in back pain patients. Radiating leg pain is either referred pain or radicular, commonly described as sciatica. Clinically distinguishing between these types of leg pain is recognize... Read More about AGREEMENT AMONG THERAPISTS WHEN DIAGNOSING LOW BACK-RELATED LEG PAIN.

Frequency and predictors of premature work loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: prospective cohort study (2013)
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Wilkie, R., Phillipson, C., Hay, E., & Pransky, G. (2014). Frequency and predictors of premature work loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: prospective cohort study. Rheumatology, 53(3), 459-464. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/ket336

Objective. The objective of this study was to describe the extent of premature work loss (PWL) in OA consulters across a 6-year observation period, and associated factors. Methods. We conducted a population-based prospective cohort study set in pr... Read More about Frequency and predictors of premature work loss in primary care consulters for osteoarthritis: prospective cohort study.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow: pragmatic randomised controlled trial (TATE trial) (2013)
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Chesterton, L. S., Lewis, A. M., Sim, J., Mallen, C. D., Mason, E. E., Hay, E. M., & van der Windt, D. A. (2013). Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as adjunct to primary care management for tennis elbow: pragmatic randomised controlled trial (TATE trial). BMJ, 347(sep02 4), f5160-f5160. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5160

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF JOINT PROTECTION AND HAND EXERCISE FOR HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS (2013)
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Oppong, R., Jowett, S., Nicholls, E., Whitehurst, D., Hill, S., Hammond, A., …Dziedzic, K. (2013). COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF JOINT PROTECTION AND HAND EXERCISE FOR HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS. Rheumatology, 52(S1),

Background: European guidelines have proposed that joint protection and hand exercise should be used in the management of hand OA. However, the evidence regarding the cost-effectiveness of these interventions has not been well established. A 2x2 fact... Read More about COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF JOINT PROTECTION AND HAND EXERCISE FOR HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS.