Effectiveness of community physiotherapy and enhanced pharmacy review for knee pain in people aged over 55 presenting to primary care: pragmatic randomised trial
- 20 October 2006
- Vol. 333 (7576), 995
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.38977.590752.0b
Abstract
Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of two primary care strategies for delivering evidence based care to people aged 55 or over with knee pain: enhanced pharmacy review and community physiotherapy. Design Pragmatic multicentre randomised clinical trial.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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