![]() ![]() The STarT Back Screening Tool is available in a number of languages including: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Danish and Welsh (Keele University n.d). By being able to categorise patients into these 3 groups, clinicians are then able to target interventions to each sub-group of patients to help outcome. The STarT Back Screening Tool helps primary care clinicians (GPs, physiotherapists etc) to group patients into three categories of risk of poor outcome (persistent disabling symptoms) - low, medium, and high-risk. ![]() Primary care patients with low back pain. ![]() The Keele STarT Back Screening Tool (SBST) (9-item version) is a brief validated tool, designed to screen primary care patients with low back pain for prognostic indicators that are relevant to initial decision making. 8 The Keele SBST 5-Item Generic Condition Tool.7 The Keele SBST 9-Item Clinical Measurement Tool. ![]()
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