'PhysioDirect' telephone assessment and advice services for physiotherapy: Protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Salisbury, Chris ^a   Foster, Nadine E ^b   Bishop, Annette ^b   Calnan, Michael ^c   Coast, Jo ^d   Hall, Jeanette ^e   Hay, Elaine ^b   Hollinghurst, Sandra ^a   Hopper, Cherida ^a   Grove, Sean ^e   Kaur, Surinder ^a   Montgomery, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Bristol Community Health Physiotherapy Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED KINGDOM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; TELEPHONE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATE MEDICINE; TELEPHONE;

EID: 69249090171     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-136     Document Type: Article

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