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Table 2 Applied intervention functions with examples of operationalization

From: A conceptual framework for increasing clinical staff member involvement in general practice: a proposed strategy to improve the management of low back pain

Intervention function

Examples of operationalization

Environmental restructuring

Organizational change with clinical staff member involvement

Modelling

Cascading of the model through national journals and newsletters.

Proposals for applied delegation guidelines

Education

National conferences.

National annual clinical staff courses

Training

Outreach visits.

Feedback (audits)

Enabling

Printed and online information material.

Hotline service.

Access to screening tools (for patients with pain > 2 weeks)

Persuasion

Local GP Innovation Leaders. Actively implementing this proposal as a method to manage the frustration with the limited existing treatment options

Incentivisation

Improving treatment through a long term investment for the GP practices

  1. Legend: Suggested intervention functions to support a change in the management of patients with non-specific low back pain