Sydney School of Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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Remotely delivered physiotherapy for musculoskeletal conditions is cost saving for the health system and patients: economic evaluation of the REFORM randomised trial
Published 2025QUESTIONS: Is remotely delivered physiotherapy cost saving when compared with usual face-to-face physiotherapy as typically provided in a public hospital outpatient setting? Is remotely delivered physiotherapy cost-effective? ...Article -
Second opinions for spinal surgery: a scoping review
Published 2022BACKGROUND: Second opinions have the goal of clarifying uncertainties around diagnosis or management, particularly when healthcare decisions are complex, unpleasant, and carry considerable risks. Second opinions might be ...Article -
Traumatic knee injury healthcare pathways and outcomes: the Australian Knee Injury Inception Cohort Study (KIICS) protocol
Published 2025Decision-making for the optimal management of traumatic knee injuries can be challenging. Clinical trials reveal only small differences between surgical and non-surgical approaches, while patient and clinician biases, as ...Article -
General practitioners' decision-making process to prescribe pain medicines for low back pain: a qualitative study
Published 2023BACKGROUND: Pain medicines are widely prescribed by general practitioners (GPs) when managing people with low back pain (LBP), but little is known about what drives decisions to prescribe these medicines. OBJECTIVES: The ...Article -
Diagnostic labels and advice for rotator cuff disease influence perceived need for shoulder surgery: an online randomised experiment
Published 2022QUESTION: What are the effects of diagnostic labels and advice, and interactions between labels and advice, on perceived need for shoulder surgery for rotator cuff disease? DESIGN: 2×2 factorial online randomised experiment. ...Article