Skip to main content

Table 7 Agreement on treatment between ESPs, OSs and common decision

From: Inter-professional agreement and collaboration between extended scope physiotherapists and orthopaedic surgeons in an orthopaedic outpatient shoulder clinic – a mixed methods study

 

Agreement

Number

(Percent, [95% CI])

Risk differencea

Percent point [95% CI]

(p-value)

ESP

(n = 68)

OS

(n = 69)

Total treatment agreement (3 categories)

60 (88, [81; 96])

67 (97, [93; 101])

−9 [−17.5; − 0.3] (0.04)

Physiotherapy

55 (81, [72; 90])

60 (87, [79; 95])

−6 [−18; 6] (0.33)

Steroid injection

55 (81, [72; 90])

62 (90, [83; 97])

−9.0 [− 21; 3] (0.13)

Diagnostic imaging

58 (85, [77; 94])

66 (96, [91; 100])

−10 [− 20; − 1] (0.04)

Surgery

65 (96, [91; 101])

67 (97, [93; 101])

−2 [− 8; 5] (0.64)

No intervention

68 (100, [NA])

69 (100, [NA])

NA

Total treatment agreement (15 categories)

38 (56, [44; 68])

52 (75, [65; 86])

−20 [−35; −4] (0.01)

Partial treatment agreement (15 categories)

67 (99, [96; 101])

68 (99, [96; 101])

−0 [−4: 4] (0.99)

  1. ESP Extended Scope Physiotherapist, OS Orthopaedic surgeon
  2. aDifference in percent point between ESPs and OSs with ESPs as reference (ESP-OS)