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ArticleMusculoskeletal care2025

Informing Implementation of a National Integrated Clinical Pathway for Low Back Pain in Ireland: A Pre-Implementation Qualitative Study With General Practitioners.

Cathriona Murphy, Helen French, Geraldine McCarthy, Bianca Albers, Caitriona Cunningham

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Article in Musculoskeletal care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Cathriona MurphyPhysiotherapy Department, University Hospital Kerry, Tralee, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-2490-500X
Helen FrenchSchool of Physiotherapy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-0300-4395
Geraldine McCarthySchool of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-4078-8499
Bianca AlbersInstitute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9555-0547
Caitriona CunninghamSchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-8916-9499

Funding

The Malachy Smith Award
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionIreland's Health Service Executive is developing a new national integrated low back pain (LBP) pathway spanning primary and secondary care to improve LBP healthcare. Clinical pathways are frequently employed to optimise clinical outcomes and resource use but are challenging to implement. Context-specific implementation planning, leveraging implementation science and its conceptual frameworks, should inform successful implementation.

aimTo explore General Practitioner (GP) perceptions of the new LBP pathway, using their on-the-ground knowledge to assess barriers and facilitators to implementation with the goal of developing tailored implementation strategies.

methodsQualitative data will be collected through semi-structured one-to-one interviews with a purposive sample of GPs. Data analysis will be guided by Framework Analysis with initial open coding followed by mapping to the domains and constructs of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Science and Proctor's implementation outcomes of acceptability, appropriateness and feasibility. Potential implementation strategies will be devised from the identified determinants of implementation.

conclusionSystem-wide changes and improvements in healthcare are difficult to accomplish. The rationale and design of a pre-implementation study with key stakeholders is outlined with the view of informing optimal implementation of Ireland's new national integrated LBP pathway in primary care settings.

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General PractitionersLow Back PainQualitative ResearchCritical PathwaysHumansIrelandbarriers and facilitatorsclinical pathwaysgeneral practitionersimplementation sciencelow back painqualitative research

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PMID39754363
PMCPMC11699446

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