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Professor Jonathan Hill's Outputs (137)

Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project) (2024)
Journal Article
Granviken, F., Meisingset, I., Bach, K., Bones, A. F., Simpson, M. R., Hill, J. C., …Vasseljen, O. (2024). Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project). PAIN, https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003456

We developed the SupportPrim PT clinical decision support system (CDSS) using the artificial intelligence method case-based reasoning to support personalised musculoskeletal pain management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of... Read More about Personalised decision support in the management of patients with musculoskeletal pain in primary physiotherapy care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (the SupportPrim project).

The STarT Back Screening Tool: The Nepali Translation, Cross‐Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Properties in Adults With Non‐Specific Low Back Pain (2024)
Journal Article
Maharjan, R., Bovonsunthonchai, S., Vachalathiti, R., Basnet, R., Pathak, A., Hill, J., & Sharma, S. (2024). The STarT Back Screening Tool: The Nepali Translation, Cross‐Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Properties in Adults With Non‐Specific Low Back Pain. Musculoskeletal Care, 22(4), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1952

Introduction/Objective: The STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) stratifies low back pain (LBP) patients based on their risk of chronicity to guide treatment accordingly. The absence of its validated Nepali version limits stratified LBP care in Nepal. Th... Read More about The STarT Back Screening Tool: The Nepali Translation, Cross‐Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Properties in Adults With Non‐Specific Low Back Pain.

Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions. (2024)
Journal Article
Braybrooke, A., Baraks, K., Burgess, R., Banerjee, A., & Hill, J. (in press). Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2024.08.022

To identify, appraise, and synthesise common themes from quality indicator (QI) sets designed for the assessment, management, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal conditions in primary and community care contexts. A systematic search was performed o... Read More about Quality Indicators for the Primary and Community Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Systematic Review: Quality Indicators for MSK Conditions..

Stratified health care for low back pain using the STarT Back approach: Holy Grail or doomed to fail? (2024)
Journal Article
Croft, P., Hill, J. C., Foster, N. E., Dunn, K. M., & van der Windt, D. A. (2024). Stratified health care for low back pain using the STarT Back approach: Holy Grail or doomed to fail?. PAIN, https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003319

There have been at least 7 separate randomised controlled trials published between 2011 and 2023 that have examined primary care for nonspecific low back pain informed by the STarT Back approach to stratified care based on risk prediction, compared w... Read More about Stratified health care for low back pain using the STarT Back approach: Holy Grail or doomed to fail?.

Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare (2024)
Journal Article
Archer, L., Peat, G., Snell, K. I. E., Hill, J. C., Dunn, K. M., Foster, N. E., …Wynne-Jones, G. (2024). Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-024-10223-w

Purpose
To develop and validate prediction models for the risk of future work absence and level of presenteeism, in adults seeking primary healthcare with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD).

Methods
Six studies from the West-Midlands/Northwest regi... Read More about Musculoskeletal Health and Work: Development and Internal–External Cross-Validation of a Model to Predict Risk of Work Absence and Presenteeism in People Seeking Primary Healthcare.

Supporting self-management of low back pain with an internet intervention with and without telephone support in primary care (SupportBack 2): a randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article
Geraghty, A. W., Becque, T., Roberts, L. C., Hill, J. C., Foster, N. E., Yardley, L., …Little, P. (2024). Supporting self-management of low back pain with an internet intervention with and without telephone support in primary care (SupportBack 2): a randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness. The Lancet Rheumatology, 6(7), e424-e437. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2665-9913%2824%2900086-9

Background
Low back pain is prevalent and a leading cause of disability. We aimed to determine the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an accessible, scalable internet intervention for supporting behavioural self-management (SupportBack).

Methods... Read More about Supporting self-management of low back pain with an internet intervention with and without telephone support in primary care (SupportBack 2): a randomised controlled trial of clinical and cost-effectiveness.

E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Cox, N., Kettle, C., Wang, H., Dutta, S., Packham, J., Galloway, J., …Scott, I. C. (2024, April). E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study. Poster presented at British Society for Rheumatology Annual Conference 2024

Background/Aims Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) assessing disease activity, function, pain, and quality of life can facilitate innovative inflammatory arthritis (IA) care, such as automating patient-initiated follow-up. This mix... Read More about E041 Feasibility and acceptability of electronic patient reported outcome measures in the routine care of people with inflammatory arthritis: Haywood Arthritis Portal study.

Cost-utility analysis of risk-based stratified primary care for common musculoskeletal pain presentations: a cluster-randomised, controlled trial (2024)
Working Paper
Kigozi, J., Hill, J. C., Bromley, K., Lewis, M., Wathall, S., Chudyk, A., …Jowett, S. Cost-utility analysis of risk-based stratified primary care for common musculoskeletal pain presentations: a cluster-randomised, controlled trial

Background
Risk-based stratified care (SC) has demonstrated cost-effectiveness versus usual primary care for non-specific low back pain. The STarT MSK trial investigated the cost-effectiveness of risk-based stratified care versus non-stratified usua... Read More about Cost-utility analysis of risk-based stratified primary care for common musculoskeletal pain presentations: a cluster-randomised, controlled trial.

The SelfSTarT intervention for low back pain patients presenting to first contact physiotherapists: A mixed methods service evaluation (2024)
Journal Article
Stevenson, K., Hadley‐Barrows, T., Evans, N., Campbell, L., Southam, J., Chudyk, A., …Hill, J. C. (2024). The SelfSTarT intervention for low back pain patients presenting to first contact physiotherapists: A mixed methods service evaluation. Musculoskeletal Care, 22(1), Article e1876. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1876

Introduction
Globally, back pain is the leading cause of years of disability. In the United Kingdom, over 20 million people live with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain, with low back pain being one of the most common causes. National strategies promote sel... Read More about The SelfSTarT intervention for low back pain patients presenting to first contact physiotherapists: A mixed methods service evaluation.

Exploring the feasibility and acceptance of an optimised physiotherapy approach for lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative investigation within the OPTimisE trial (2024)
Journal Article
Bateman, M., Saunders, B., Cooper, K., Littlewood, C., & Hill, J. C. (2024). Exploring the feasibility and acceptance of an optimised physiotherapy approach for lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative investigation within the OPTimisE trial. BMJ Open, 14(3), Article e073816. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-073816

Objectives: To explore the acceptability of an optimised physiotherapy (OPTimisE) intervention for people with lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) and feasibility of comparing it to usual care in a randomised controlled trial.

Design: Semistructured... Read More about Exploring the feasibility and acceptance of an optimised physiotherapy approach for lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative investigation within the OPTimisE trial.

Validation of the Keele STarT MSK Tool for Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain in United States-based Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings (2024)
Journal Article
Beneciuk, J. M., Michener, L. A., Sigman, E., Harrison, T., Buzzanca-Fried, K. E., Lu, X., …Hill, J. C. (2024). Validation of the Keele STarT MSK Tool for Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain in United States-based Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings. The Journal of Pain, 25(7), Article 104475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.01.340

The STarT MSK tool was developed to enable risk stratification of patients with common musculoskeletal (MSK) pain conditions and help identify individuals who may require more targeted interventions or closer monitoring in primary care settings, howe... Read More about Validation of the Keele STarT MSK Tool for Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain in United States-based Outpatient Physical Therapy Settings.

Optimising physiotherapy for people with lateral elbow tendinopathy – Results of a mixed-methods pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial (OPTimisE) (2023)
Journal Article
Bateman, M., Skeggs, A., Whitby, E., Fletcher-Barrett, V., Stephens, G., Dawes, M., …Hill, J. C. (2024). Optimising physiotherapy for people with lateral elbow tendinopathy – Results of a mixed-methods pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial (OPTimisE). Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 69, Article 102905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2023.102905

The OPTimisE intervention was developed to address uncertainty regarding the most effective physiotherapy treatment strategy for people with Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy (LET). To assess the feasibility of conducting a fully-powered randomised controll... Read More about Optimising physiotherapy for people with lateral elbow tendinopathy – Results of a mixed-methods pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial (OPTimisE).

Effectiveness of conservative non-pharmacological interventions in people with muscular dystrophies: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Leone, E., Pandyan, A., Rogers, A., Kulshrestha, R., Hill, J., & Philp, F. (2023). Effectiveness of conservative non-pharmacological interventions in people with muscular dystrophies: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP), jnnp-2023-331988. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2023-331988

Management of muscular dystrophies (MD) relies on conservative non-pharmacological treatments, but evidence of their effectiveness is limited and inconclusive. To investigate the effectiveness of conservative non-pharmacological interventions for MD... Read More about Effectiveness of conservative non-pharmacological interventions in people with muscular dystrophies: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CSP2023: 206 OPTIMISING PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH LATERAL ELBOW TENDINOPATHY – RESULTS OF A MIXED-METHODS PILOT AND FEASIBILITY RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL (OPTimisE) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bateman, M., Skeggs, A., Whitby, E., Fletcher-Barrett, V., Stephens, G., Dawes, M., …Hill, J. (2023, October). CSP2023: 206 OPTIMISING PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH LATERAL ELBOW TENDINOPATHY – RESULTS OF A MIXED-METHODS PILOT AND FEASIBILITY RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL (OPTimisE). Presented at Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) 2023 Annual Conference, London, England, UK

CSP2023: 185 THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS WITH LATERAL ELBOW TENDINOPATHY – A QUALITATIVE STUDY FROM THE OPTIMISE PILOT & FEASIBILITY TRIAL (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bateman, M., Saunders, B., Cooper, K., Littlewood, C., & Hill, J. (2023, October). CSP2023: 185 THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS WITH LATERAL ELBOW TENDINOPATHY – A QUALITATIVE STUDY FROM THE OPTIMISE PILOT & FEASIBILITY TRIAL. Poster presented at Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) 2023 Annual Conference, London, England, UK

Diagnostic clinical prediction rules for categorising low back pain: A systematic review (2023)
Journal Article
Hill, C. J., Banerjee, A., Hill, J., & Stapleton, C. (2023). Diagnostic clinical prediction rules for categorising low back pain: A systematic review. Musculoskeletal Care, https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1816

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a common complex condition, where specific diagnoses are hard to identify. Diagnostic clinical prediction rules (CPRs) are known to improve clinical decision‐making. A review of LBP diagnostic‐CPRs by Haskins et al.... Read More about Diagnostic clinical prediction rules for categorising low back pain: A systematic review.

Development and External Validation of Individualized Prediction Models for Pain Intensity Outcomes in Patients With Neck Pain, Low Back Pain, or Both in Primary Care Settings (2023)
Journal Article
Archer, L., Snell, K. I. E., Stynes, S., Axén, I., Dunn, K. M., Foster, N. E., …Hill, J. C. (in press). Development and External Validation of Individualized Prediction Models for Pain Intensity Outcomes in Patients With Neck Pain, Low Back Pain, or Both in Primary Care Settings. Physical Therapy, 103(11), Article pzad128. https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/pzad128

Objective
The purpose of this study was to develop and externally validate multivariable prediction models for future pain intensity outcomes to inform targeted interventions for patients with neck or low back pain in primary care settings.

Metho... Read More about Development and External Validation of Individualized Prediction Models for Pain Intensity Outcomes in Patients With Neck Pain, Low Back Pain, or Both in Primary Care Settings.

Lived experience of people with lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative study from the OPTimisE pilot and feasibility trial (2023)
Journal Article
Bateman, M., Hill, J. C., Cooper, K., Littlewood, C., & Saunders, B. (2023). Lived experience of people with lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative study from the OPTimisE pilot and feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 13(8), Article e072070. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072070

Objectives: To explore the lived experience of people with lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) and its impact on everyday life. Design: Qualitative semi-structured interviews, analysed using thematic analysis. Setting: Conducted as part of the mixed-met... Read More about Lived experience of people with lateral elbow tendinopathy: a qualitative study from the OPTimisE pilot and feasibility trial.

The Swedish version of the STarT MSK Tool: cross-cultural adaption, test–retest reliability, and aspects of validity (2023)
Journal Article
Rasmussen-Barr, E., Sövelid, M., Krantz, R., & Hill, J. C. (2023). The Swedish version of the STarT MSK Tool: cross-cultural adaption, test–retest reliability, and aspects of validity. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 24(1), 644. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-023-06771-6

Background: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a common reason for seeking primary health care. The STarT Musculoskeletal (MSK) tool is designed to stratify patients suffering from MSDs to risk groups, based on prognostic factors. Aim: The aim was... Read More about The Swedish version of the STarT MSK Tool: cross-cultural adaption, test–retest reliability, and aspects of validity.

Stratified primary care for adults with musculoskeletal pain: the STarT MSK research programme including RCTs (2023)
Journal Article
E Foster, N., M Dunn, K., Protheroe, J., C Hill, J., Lewis, M., Saunders, B., …Chudyk, A. (in press). Stratified primary care for adults with musculoskeletal pain: the STarT MSK research programme including RCTs. Health Technology Assessment, 11(4), 1-103. https://doi.org/10.3310/FBVX4177

Background Usual primary care for patients with musculoskeletal pain varies widely and treatment outcomes are suboptimal. Stratified care involves targeting treatments according to patient subgroups, in the hope of maximising treatment benefit and re... Read More about Stratified primary care for adults with musculoskeletal pain: the STarT MSK research programme including RCTs.