التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches and Pain Care Quality in the Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Setting: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis. |
| المؤلفون: |
Han, Ling, Luther, Stephen L., Finch, Dezon K., Dobscha, Steven K., Skanderson, Melissa, Bathulapalli, Harini, Fodeh, Samah J., Hahm, Bridget, Bouayad, Lina, Lee, Allison, Goulet, Joseph L., Brandt, Cynthia A., Kerns, Robert D. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Integrative & Complementary Medicine; Jun/Jul2023, Vol. 29 Issue 6/7, p420-429, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CHRONIC pain treatment, MEDICAL quality control, VETERANS' hospitals, STRUCTURAL equation modeling, RESEARCH, CONFIDENCE intervals, INTEGRATIVE medicine, RESEARCH methodology, NATURAL language processing, CASE-control method, PRIMARY health care, T-test (Statistics), COMPARATIVE studies, SEVERITY of illness index, MUSCULOSKELETAL pain, CHI-squared test, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, RESEARCH funding, ALTERNATIVE medicine, ODDS ratio, DATA analysis software, PAIN management, POISSON distribution, ALGORITHMS, LONGITUDINAL method |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Complementary and integrative health (CIH) approaches have been recommended in national and international clinical guidelines for chronic pain management. We set out to determine whether exposure to CIH approaches is associated with pain care quality (PCQ) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) primary care setting. Methods: We followed a cohort of 62,721 Veterans with newly diagnosed musculoskeletal disorders between October 2016 and September 2017 over 1-year. PCQ scores were derived from primary care progress notes using natural language processing. CIH exposure was defined as documentation of acupuncture, chiropractic or massage therapies by providers. Propensity scores (PSs) were used to match one control for each Veteran with CIH exposure. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine associations between CIH exposure and PCQ scores, accounting for potential selection and confounding bias. Results: CIH was documented for 14,114 (22.5%) Veterans over 16,015 primary care clinic visits during the follow-up period. The CIH exposure group and the 1:1 PS-matched control group achieved superior balance on all measured baseline covariates, with standardized differences ranging from 0.000 to 0.045. CIH exposure was associated with an adjusted rate ratio (aRR) of 1.147 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.142, 1.151) on PCQ total score (mean: 8.36). Sensitivity analyses using an alternative PCQ scoring algorithm (aRR: 1.155; 95% CI: 1.150–1.160) and redefining CIH exposure by chiropractic alone (aRR: 1.118; 95% CI: 1.110–1.126) derived consistent results. Discussion: Our data suggest that incorporating CIH approaches may reflect higher overall quality of care for patients with musculoskeletal pain seen in primary care settings, supporting VHA initiatives and the Declaration of Astana to build comprehensive, sustainable primary care capacity for pain management. Future investigation is warranted to better understand whether and to what degree the observed association may reflect the therapeutic benefits patients actually received or other factors such as empowering provider-patient education and communication about these approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
