Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Back-UP (Personalised Prognostic Models to Improve Well-being and Return to Work After Neck and Low Back Pain)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2019-07-01 al 2021-04-30
The overall aim of the Back-UP project is to develop a tool with patient-specific prognostic models, to support more effective and efficient management of NLBP, based on the digital representation of multidimensional clinical information, including: personal, health, psychological, behavioural, and socioeconomic factors related to NLBP; biological patient characteristics, including musculoskeletal structures and function, and molecular data; and workplace and lifestyle risk factors. Back-UP will provide prognostics of pain, disability, function and time off work in the following weeks and months after clinic consultations, and support to rehabilitation, return to work and self-management, including tailored personalised plans.
Back-UP is targeted to a wide range of clinicians that deal with patients with NLBP like general practitioners, physiotherapists, chiropractors, occupational clinicians, etc., occupational managers, and patients. Different platforms, optimised for those user profiles, will be developed and integrated, based on state-of-the-art digital health technologies.
Back-UP is expected to maximise treatment benefits in the patients who need it, and reduce overtreatment and harm in those at low risk. This will reduce healthcare costs related to NLBP and increase work productivity.