APEx Seminar Series - Professor Ben Darlow

Te Tauwhiro Turi mā te Rongoā: Knee Care for Arthritis through Pharmacy Study (KneeCAPS) is a pragmatic community-based randomised controlled trial.

KneeCAPS was designed to test whether providing evidence-based and community-based care to people with knee osteoarthritis (https://www.freefromkneepain.org/) improves their health and reduces the economic burden of osteoarthritis. KneeCAPS aimed for equal Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand) and non-Māori participation to increase the likelihood that trial data would improve outcomes for those who currently have the worst outcomes.

Participants were identified and recruited in community pharmacies by pharmacy staff. All KneeCAPS care was delivered by existing community-based care providers within their normal places of work, to demonstrate the potential for immediate implementation should trial outcomes be favourable.

This presentation will discuss these design features and how these were implemented together with the challenges and benefits experienced. It will reflect on what we have learnt that could inform future trials.

Darlow, B., Brown, M., Stanley, J., Abbott, J. H., Briggs, A. M., Clark, J., Frew, G., Grainger, R., Hood, F., Hudson, B., Keenan, R., Marra, C., McKinlay, E., Pask, A., Pierobon, A., Simmonds, S., Vincent, L., Wilson, R., & Dean, S. (2023). Reducing the burden of knee osteoarthritis through community pharmacy: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the Knee Care for Arthritis through Pharmacy Service. Musculoskeletal Care, 21(1053-67). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1785

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