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Table 1 Participating practices and their characteristics

From: Evaluation of intermediate care for knee and hip osteoarthritis: a mixed-methods study

 

Practice A

Practice B

Practice C

Target group

Patients with musculoskeletal complaints who would normally be referred to secondary care

1) Patients with suspected knee or hip osteoarthritis

2) Patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis aged 50 and older that do not qualify for surgery and patients who do not sufficiently respond to non-surgical treatment in primary care

Patients with musculoskeletal complaints who would normally be referred to secondary care

Area

Urban

Rural

Urban

Healthcare providers in intermediate care consultation

Orthopaedist, sometimes together with a GP

Joint consultation by a GP and orthopaedist

Orthopaedist

Total number of healthcare providers involved in the project

One GP and one orthopaedist

Three GPs, two orthopaedists, and one healthcare manager

Two GPs and one orthopaedist

Scale of project

One general practice with one orthopaedist

Two general practices; one orthopaedist within each practice

One general practice with one orthopaedist

Participated in following programme evaluation parts

Semi-structured interviews, patient-level referral data and patient-reported experience measures

Semi-structured interviews, patient-level referral data and experience measures

Patient-level referral data

Data that had already been collected by the practice before the start of this evaluation study

Patient-reported experience measures (patient satisfaction)

Patient-reported experience measures (patient satisfaction)

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