Community-based care for people with chronic knee and hip pain: Preliminary clinical outcomes and healthcare utilisation for ESCAPE-pain.

Background: Joint pain impairs physical and psychosocial wellbeing, quality of life (QoL) and has a significant socioeconomic impact. Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise, ESCAPE-pain, is a rehabilitation programme that mitigates the wide impacts of joint pain. Financial, logistical and workforce constraints in health systems severely limit access to the programme.