Is Emergency Department Care for Low Back Pain Meeting Contemporary Standards? A Medical Record Review
In a tertiary hospital ED, adherence to the LBPCCS is varied. The ED performed well against the clinical assessment/screening outcomes. However, findings suggest strategies are needed to improve performance against the management outcomes, including management advice, identification of psychosocial risk factors, and opioid use.
Authors
- Ms Julie Bayliss
- Karen Richards
- Gustavo Machado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5782-3698)
- Vinícius Cavalheri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8620-7499)
- Paul Atkinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9900-4594)
- Piers Truter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2322-7692)
- Ivan B. Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-2569)
- Kym Moiler
- Rosalind Taylor
- Pippa Flanagan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9168-0309)
- Robert Waller
Institutions
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Curtin University (AU)
- Fiona Stanley Hospital (AU)
- Institute for Musculoskeletal Health (AU)
- North Metropolitan Health Service (AU)
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Emergency Medicine Australasia
- Published
- 2026-01-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.70214
- Primary Topic
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00