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Professor Jonathan Hill's Outputs (147)

Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire (2025)
Journal Article
Peat, G. M., Hill, J. C., Yu, D., Wathall, S., Parry, E., Bailey, J., Stevenson, K., Thompson, C., Wilkie, R., Dziedzic, K., & Jordan, K. P. (2025). Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 26, Article e52. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1463423625100133

Summary: Variation between general practices in the rate of consultations for musculoskeletal pain conditions may signal important differences in access to primary care, perceived usefulness, or available alternative sources of care; however, it migh... Read More about Local variation in musculoskeletal pain consultation rates in primary care: findings from an ecologic study in Staffordshire.

Secondary healthcare utilization among users of a self-management application for musculoskeletal pain: A prospective cohort study based on 12,842 individuals in Denmark. (2025)
Journal Article
Simonsen, N. S., Nielsen, R. Ø., Budtz, C. R., Christiansen, D. H., Bibby, B. M., Skejø, S. D., Hill, J., & Jacobsen, J. S. (in press). Secondary healthcare utilization among users of a self-management application for musculoskeletal pain: A prospective cohort study based on 12,842 individuals in Denmark. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 78(August 2025), Article 103356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103356

To identify which users of a self-management app for musculoskeletal pain are more likely to utilize secondary healthcare (i.e., specialist services within the musculoskeletal domain following primary care referrals). Cohort study with one-year follo... Read More about Secondary healthcare utilization among users of a self-management application for musculoskeletal pain: A prospective cohort study based on 12,842 individuals in Denmark..

Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) (2025)
Journal Article
Geraghty, A. W. A., Becque, T., Roberts, L. C., Hill, J., Foster, N. E., Yardley, L., Stuart, B., Turner, D. A., Griffiths, G., Webley, F., Durcan, L., Morgan, A., Hughes, S., Bathers, S., Butler-Walley, S., Wathall, S., Mansell, G., White, M., Davies, F., & Little, P. (2025). Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2). Health Technology Assessment, 29(7), 1-112. https://doi.org/10.3310/gdps2418

Background Low back pain is highly prevalent and a leading cause of disability. Internet-delivered interventions may provide rapid and scalable support for behavioural self-management. There is a need to determine the effectiveness of highly accessib... Read More about Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2).

P069 The acceptability of ePROMs in the routine care of patients with inflammatory arthritis and its variation across patient groups: a mixed-methods study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cox, N., Kettle, C., Wang, H., Dutta, S., Packham, J., Galloway, J., Hill, J., Muller, S., Hider, S., Paskins, Z., Bullock, L., & Scott, I. (2025, April). P069 The acceptability of ePROMs in the routine care of patients with inflammatory arthritis and its variation across patient groups: a mixed-methods study. Poster presented at British Society for Rheumatology Annual Conference 2025, Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester, England, UK

Background/Aims Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) can facilitate innovative, holistic care for people with inflammatory arthritis (IA). The crucial first step in their implementation is understanding their feasibility and acceptab... Read More about P069 The acceptability of ePROMs in the routine care of patients with inflammatory arthritis and its variation across patient groups: a mixed-methods study.

Estimating the Cost and Carbon Output of Musculoskeletal Primary Care Management Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records (2025)
Journal Article
Braybrooke, A., Pegg, M., Naylor, R., Bailey, J., Scott, J., Burgess, R., Yu, D., Wathall, S., Jordan, K. P., Malcolm, R., Holmes, H., Peat, G., Banerjee, A., & Hill, J. C. (in press). Estimating the Cost and Carbon Output of Musculoskeletal Primary Care Management Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3919

Background: Healthcare accounts for up to 5% of worldwide carbon emissions and costs global economies an estimated $9 trillion annually. Primary care accounts for up to one‐fifth of all NHS carbon emissions, with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain accounting... Read More about Estimating the Cost and Carbon Output of Musculoskeletal Primary Care Management Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records.

Sequence Analysis to Phenotype Healthcare Patterns in Adults with Musculoskeletal Conditions Using Primary Care Electronic Health Records (2025)
Journal Article
Mathew, S., Peat, G., Parry, E., Wilkie, R., Jordan, K. P., Hill, J. C., & Yu, D. (in press). Sequence Analysis to Phenotype Healthcare Patterns in Adults with Musculoskeletal Conditions Using Primary Care Electronic Health Records. Arthritis Care & Research, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25514

ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to apply sequence analysis (SA) to phenotype healthcare patterns of adult patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions using primary care electronic health records and to investigate the association between these... Read More about Sequence Analysis to Phenotype Healthcare Patterns in Adults with Musculoskeletal Conditions Using Primary Care Electronic Health Records.

Prioritising Quality Indicators for the Community Care of MSK Conditions: An Online Modified-Delphi Study (2025)
Journal Article
Braybrooke, A., Burgess, R., Brooks, M., Banerjee, A., & Hill, J. (2025). Prioritising Quality Indicators for the Community Care of MSK Conditions: An Online Modified-Delphi Study. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 76, Article 103283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103283

Background
Quality indicators can be used within healthcare to measure and benchmark performance. Variations in the access and quality of healthcare for musculoskeletal conditions highlights the need for a nationa... Read More about Prioritising Quality Indicators for the Community Care of MSK Conditions: An Online Modified-Delphi Study.

Are clinical decision support systems seen as helpful to First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) working in musculoskeletal health? (2024)
Journal Article
Salt, E., Khalid, M., Van Der Windt, D., & Hill, J. (2025). Are clinical decision support systems seen as helpful to First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) working in musculoskeletal health?. Physiotherapy (Elsevier), 126, Article 101445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2024.101445

Background There is increasing burden on musculoskeletal (MSK) First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) working in primary care. One possible solution is to use digital technologies such as clinical decision support syste... Read More about Are clinical decision support systems seen as helpful to First Contact Practitioners (FCPs) working in musculoskeletal health?.

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., van der Windt, D. A., & 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.

629P Co-producing UK care quality standards in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) in partnership with people with FSHD, carers and healthcare professionals: a qualitative focus group study (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Leone, E., Pandyan, A., Rogers, A., Kulshrestha, R., Hill, J., & Philp, F. (2024, October). 629P Co-producing UK care quality standards in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) in partnership with people with FSHD, carers and healthcare professionals: a qualitative focus group study. Poster presented at Neuromuscular Disorders WMS Congress Issue - Abstracts 2024, Prague

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., Bishop, A., van der Windt, D., & 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., Stuart, B., Turner, D. A., Hay, E., Griffiths, G., Webley, F., Durcan, L., Morgan, A., Hughes, S., Bathers, S., Butler-Walley, S., Wathall, S., Mansell, G., White, M., Davies, F., & 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 Contribution
Cox, N., Kettle, C., Wang, H., Dutta, S., Packham, J., Galloway, J., Hill, J., Muller, S., Hider, S., Paskins, Z., Bullock, L., & 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)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kigozi, J., Hill, J. C., Bromley, K., Lewis, M., Wathall, S., Chudyk, A., Dunn, K. M., Foster, N. E., & 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., Ellington, D., Jeeves, B., Jenson, C., Kleberg, S., Birkinshaw, H., Mair, F., Dziedzic, K., Peat, G., Jordan, K. P., Yu, D., Bailey, J., Braybooke, A., Mallen, C. D., & 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.