ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2017
Consultation patterns of children and adolescents with knee pain in UK general practice: analysis of medical records.
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- Poor prognosis of child and adolescent musculoskeletal pain: a systematic literature review.BMJ open · 2019Pooled it
- [The painful knee in children].Orthopadie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Review
- Exploring User Visions for Modeling mHealth Apps Toward Supporting Patient-Parent-Clinician Collaboration and Shared Decision-making When Treating Adolescent Knee Pain in General Practice: Workshop Study.JMIR human factors · 2023Article
- Development of a tool to support general practitioners to help adolescents with knee pain: an analysis using the Theoretical Domains Framework.Primary health care research & development · 2023Article
- The role of area level social deprivation on childhood and adolescent consultation rate in primary care: a population based, cohort study.BMC primary care · 2022Article
- Development and validation of the Sorting non-trauMatIc adoLescent knEe pain (SMILE) tool - a development and initial validation study.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2021Article
- Five-year prognosis and impact of adolescent knee pain: a prospective population-based cohort study of 504 adolescents in Denmark.BMJ open · 2019Article
- The Adolescent Knee Pain (AK-Pain) prognostic tool: protocol for a prospective cohort study.F1000Research · 2019Article
- Does lower extremity pain precede spinal pain? A longitudinal study.European journal of pediatrics · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundKnee problems are common in children and adolescents. Despite this, little is known about the epidemiology of knee problems in children and adolescents who consult in general practice. The aim of this study was to describe consultations by children and adolescents about knee problems in general practice, and examine patterns of patient presentations and consultations by age group, sex and area of socio-economic deprivation.
methodsConsultations records specific to the knee region were extracted from a general practice consultation database (CiPCA) over a one year period. Knee consultation codes were organised into 'symptom' or 'diagnosis' (sub-categorised: 'trauma', 'non-trauma') categories. Descriptive statistics were used to describe patient presentations and number of consultations overall, and stratified analysis carried out on age group, sex, and area of socio-economic deprivation.
resultsOut of all musculoskeletal consultations, knee problems were the fourth most common patient presentation, responsible for the second highest number of consultations. Patient presentations and consultations increased up to age 12-15 years and then stabilised. Symptoms codes e.g. 'knee pain' were used more commonly than diagnosis codes e.g. 'knee sprain' overall. However, symptom code use declined as age increased, more symptom codes were used in girls compared to boys, and more diagnosis codes were used in patients from areas of high socio-economic deprivation.
conclusionsThis study provides insight into the epidemiology of knee problems in children and adolescents in general practice. Future research is needed to improve our understanding of the knee problems encountered by GPs, and the influence socio-economic deprivation has on consultations.
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