Fennelly, Orna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-900X
Blake, Catherine
FitzGerald, Oliver
Breen, Roisin
Ashton, Jennifer
Brennan, Aisling
Caffrey, Aoife
Desmeules, François
Cunningham, Caitriona
Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Service Executive and the National Clinical Programmes for Rheumatology and for Orthopaedics
Article History
Received: 12 December 2017
Accepted: 21 May 2018
First Online: 1 June 2018
Authors’ information
: OFe is a PhD researcher and physiotherapist who has not worked in the advanced practice physiotherapist role. JA, AB and AC work in the advanced practice physiotherapist roles. OFi is a Consultant Rheumatologist who works alongside advanced practice physiotherapists and formerly Clinical Lead of the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology. RB was a physiotherapy manager and formerly the Programme Manager for the National Clinical Programme for Rheumatology. CC and CB are physiotherapists and lecturers at UCD. FD is a physiotherapist and lecturer at the University of Montreal.
: Full ethical approval was received from University College Dublin’s Human Research Ethics Committee (ref. LS-16-04-Fennelly-C), with permission from the National Clinical Programmes, and the Ethics and Medical Research Committee at St. Vincent’s University Hospital (SVUH), Dublin. Participant consent was not necessary as this study involved the use of an anonymised database which is not considered ‘personal data’ according to the Data Protection Act 1988.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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