ReferralandAssessmentPathwayLOWBACKPAINCENTRALINTAKE&RAPIDACCESSCLINIC
The Low Back Pain Central Intake and Rapid Access Clinic (RAC) is an inter-professional shared care model for low back pain that is part of a province-wide initiative to streamline referrals and help improve access to quality, appropriate low back pain care in LHINs across Ontario.
William Osler Health System (Osler) is launching the Low Back Pain Central Intake and RAC in partnership with the Central West Local Health Integration Network (Central West LHIN) and Trillium Health Partners (THP).
Multiple RACS throughout the Central West LHIN will start seeing patients as of September 30, 2019. Patient referrals are now being accepted.
Patient Eligibility CriteriaPatientsmustbe18yearsofageorolder.
InclusionCriteria§ Patientswithpersistentlowbackpainand/orrelated
symptoms(e.g.,sciatica,neurogenicclaudication)thatarenotimprovingsixweekto12monthsfromonset,OR
§ Patientswithunmanageablerecurrent/episodiclowbackpainand/orrelatedsymptomsoflessthan12monthsdurationpost-recurrence.
ExclusionCriteria§ <18yearsofage§ Patientswithspecifiedredflags§ Initiallowback-relatedsymptoms<6weekspostonset§ Constant/persistentlowback-relatedsymptoms>12
monthspostonset§ Unmanagedestablishedchronicmulti-sitepaindisorder§ Unmanagedestablishednarcoticdependency§ ActivelowbackpainrelatedWSIBclaim§ Activelowbackpainrelatedmotorvehicleaccidentclaim§ Activelowbackpainrelatedlegalclaim§ Pregnantorpost-partum(<1year)
StepsforPrimaryCareProviderstoReferPatients
Primarycarephysiciansandnursepractitionersmustregister forprivilegestomakeareferraltotheLowBackPainRACathttp://www.isaec.org/isaec-registration.html.
Onceregistered,youwillreceiveanemailwithin2businessdaysthatprovidesyouwithaccesstoanonlinemodulethatwilltake10-15minutestocomplete.ThemodulewillprovidefurtherinformationabouttheLowBackPainmodelofcare,andthereferralprocess.Oncecompleted,youwillreceivethereferralformwithin2-3businessdaysviaemailandmaybeginreferringpatientsrightaway.Referralprivilegeswillonlybegrantedtothosewhohaveregisteredandcompletedthemodule.
ReferralandAssessmentPathwayLOWBACKPAINCENTRALINTAKE&RAPIDACCESSCLINIC
FormoreinformationabouttheLowBackPainCentralIntakeandRapidAccessClinicregistrationandreferralprocess,pleasecontact:
KarenTsui,PracticeLead,416-521-4081, [email protected]
