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. 2023 Sep 28;25(2):104–115. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnad134

Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria applied to publications from systematic search.

Inclusion criteria
1 The full article is available for review.
2 The article is published in English.
3 The article focuses on physiotherapy as the health care provider.
4 The study involves adults (ie, ≥18 years of age).
5 The article reports on chronic (>3 months’ duration) musculoskeletal pain as the health condition of interest.
6 The article is a peer-reviewed publication.
7 The article reports on patient-related barriers to or enablers of the implementation of high-value HVP or EBP chronic pain management.a
8 The article reports on an intervention to enhance implementation of HVP or EBP chronic pain management.a
Exclusion criteria
1 The article pertains to non-neuromusculoskeletal chronic pain (eg, cancer pain, migraine, neuropathic pain).
2 The article pertains to non-physiotherapeutic management (eg, osteopathy, chiropractic).
3 The full article does not report on analyses of primary data (eg, is an editorial, letter to the editor, short communication, or study protocol).
4 The full article is a review of literature.
5 The article is a thesis.
6 The study involves healthy participants.

Abbreviations: EBP= evidence-based practice; HVP= high-value physiotherapy.

a

Inclusion criteria 1–6 were applied to all publications during the screening process. Inclusion criteria 7 and 8 were applied (to publications meeting criteria 1–6) for the purposes of addressing questions 1 and 2, respectively, of the systematic review.