The PainSMART Research Program: Evaluating a Pain Education Strategy for Patients Seeking Primary Care Physiotherapy

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients who are judged to require urgent medical examination due to suspected serious pathology (red flags)
• •Patients who are booked to an initial physiotherapy consultation on the same day as, or the day directly following triage.
• •Patients referred for physiotherapy following consultation with a tertiary care practitioner (e.g. orthopaedic surgeon, rheumatologist, neurologist)
• •Patients who cannot communicate in Swedish to the equivalent of a 12-year-old native speaker (as judged by the triaging physiotherapist)
• •Patients who, through visual impairments, are unable to complete the necessary questionnaires for the study
• •Patients who are booked for an initial consultation with a physiotherapist who has not consented to taking part in the study