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FYSIOPRIM

Physiotherapy in primary care

Participants in FYSIOPRIM 2013. Photo: Anbjørg Kolaas

FYSIOPRIM was a research and innovation program to strengthen physiotherapy provided in primary health care. The program has received funding for two periods of five years, starting in 2010. The funding provided by The Norwegian Fund for Post-Graduate Training in Physiotherapy was 32 mill NOK for 2010-2015, and 27 mill NOK for 2015-2020. The program is now closed. Please see our list of publications

The established database of one-year follow up data from patients, is used in several projects also after the funded project period.  

 

A short summary of the activities and achievements 

A main objective was to establish and evaluate structures for broad collaboration to improve clinical practice, health management and prioritization and research in primary health care. We developed different  setup of collaboration with municipal care managers and clinicians. All of these resulted in several projects planned in joint effort and publications written by the cliniicans, managers and researchers in collaboration, often with clinicians as main author. 

Another aim was develop a large database of patients consulting physiotherapists in primary care, as well as tools to enable the clinicians to use systematically collected patients data. These goals were achieved, including systems that easily provide patient data to be used in a clinical setting.  

A key activity was to develop projects based on the challenges seen in the clinical setting. One basic foundation of FYSIOPRIM was the view that health care providers, patients, managers and researchers all possess important, but different, knowledge of relevance for improvement of health care. This means that representatives of these positions must meet and negotiate to achieve true bilateral knowledge exchange and translation. We have written out these presumptions in various papers and blogs.

 

The partners of FYSIOPRIM were:

  • University of Oslo, Institute of Health and Society, Dep of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Dep of Public Health and General practice

  • Trondheim municipality

Published Feb. 23, 2011 2:40 PM - Last modified Feb. 5, 2024 4:21 PM