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Table 3 Comparison of GP decision-making between intervention and control practices.

From: Stratified primary care versus non-stratified care for musculoskeletal pain: findings from the STarT MSK feasibility and pilot cluster randomized controlled trial

  1. †STarT MSK scored 0–3, low risk; 4–7 medium risk; 8–9 high risk.
  2. The colours represent the effects of the intervention on GP behaviours in comparison to controls:
  3. Reduced (> 0.04) Same Increased (> 0.04) Provided earlier .
  4. “It should be noted that the numbers of patients referred for an x-ray or MRI are combined, as in both the intervention and control GP practices, MRI was used less than 5 times in total, which meant there were too few numbers for any meaningful comparison of MRI alone.”