Do self-management supportive interventions reduce healthcare utilization for people with musculoskeletal pain conditions? - A systematic review.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the effect of self-management supportive interventions on healthcare utilization in adult cares seekers with musculoskeletal pain conditions.

Study Design: Systematic review.

Methods: We included studies comparing the effect of a self-management supportive intervention against a control intervention and included measures of healthcare utilization.

Healthcare Utilisation in Danish Primary Care Among Patients With Low Back or Neck/Thoracic Spine Pain Before and After Assessment in Secondary Care.

Objectives: To describe characteristics and primary healthcare utilisation in Danish patients with low back pain (LBP) or neck/thoracic spine pain (NTP) 8 years before and 2 years after assessment in secondary care.

Methods: In this cohort study, we included patients aged ≥ 18 who were assessed at an outpatient spine clinic from 2013 to 2021 and linked self-reported information with national registry data. We calculated the prevalence of all-cause healthcare utilisation in primary care.

What do people believe to be the cause of low back pain? A scoping review.

Objective: To explore how causal beliefs regarding non-specific low back pain (LBP) have been quantitatively investigated.

Methods: A scoping review based on the guidelines by the JBI (former Joanna Briggs Institute) was conducted. We searched Medline, Embase, Psychinfo, and CINAHL for relevant studies and included peer-reviewed original articles that measured causal beliefs about non-specific LBP among adults and reported results separate from other belief domains.

The usefulness and practicality of the International Medical Guide for Ships.

Background: The third edition of the International Medical Guide for Ships (IMGS) was published in 2007 and supported a main principle of the newly adopted International Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006: to ensure that seafarers are given health protection and medical care as comparable as possible to that which is available to workers ashore. In 2021, the revisions and drafting of the fourth edition of the IMGS began. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic into consideration, it was decided that a stakeholder study was necessary to ascertain the usefulness and practicality of the guide as well as provide input for which new topics to include.

Beliefs about back pain and associations with clinical outcomes: a primary care cohort study.

Objective: To investigate associations between beliefs about low back pain (LBP) at baseline and pain intensity and disability at 2-week, 13-week and 52-week follow-up.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Setting: Primary care private chiropractic clinics in Denmark.