| Issues affecting recruitment (from physiotherapists’ perspectives) |
Surgeon annual leave |
3 month period of reduced number of operations because of bed pressures (March-May 2013) |
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Waiting list initiatives to private sector |
More ineligible patients from May 2013. Possible reasons: rotation Band 5 physiotherapists in May, a difference in the knowledge of the new physiotherapists on the ward, training from the site coordinator, surgeon caseload and type of patients referred |
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Staff annual leave |
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| Reasons for declining (obtained from patients by physiotherapists) |
Wanted to attend for physiotherapy |
Too far to travel–regional centre with vast catchment area (n = 40) |
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Too far to travel (regional centre with vast catchment area) |
Organised own physiotherapy (n = 4) |
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Has physiotherapy in family (n = 1) |
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Did not want physiotherapy (n = 1) |
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Thinks physiotherapy increases pain (n = 1) |
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No reason given (n = 6) |
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Not interested (n = 5) |
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Unable to get time off work (n = 5) |
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Family commitments (n = 4) |
| Reasons for ineligibility (from physiotherapists) |
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Pain (n = 10) |
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Co-morbidities (n = 10, 1 was specified as spondylitis) |
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Not fluent in English (n = 4) |
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Needs post op physiotherapy so unsuitable for randomisation (n = 6) |
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Sensory loss (n = 1) |
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Lower limb weakness (n = 5) |
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Dural tear (n = 2) |
