Providing patients with direct access to musculoskeletal physiotherapy: the impact on general practice musculoskeletal workload and resource use. The STEMS-2 study.

The introduction of patient direct access (second quarter of 2013) was associated with the start of an increasing trend of MSK consultation (from 7.6 per 100 registered population at 2013 quarter 1 to 11.9% at 2013 quarter 4), the prevalence then became stable until the end of observation ( Fig. 2 ).

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