Acceptability and practicality of pGALS musculoskeletal screening tool in Malawian children
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Results Fifty-one children (median age 8 years); 23/51 (45%) assessed in emergency department, remainder assessed as in-patients; many (50%) had infection related diagnoses. Practicality of pGALS was good (median time taken to complete pGALS 4 minutes (range 1.8-7.4), completed in 47/51 children (92%) – reason for noncompletion; child being fractious (n=1), trauma related pain (n=1), limb fracture (n=1). Acceptability was high: 98% parents considered time taken to be acceptable, 84% of children deemed little / no discomfort. Abnormalities were found 21/51 (41%), including hypermobility, trauma / infection related, spinal deformity (Tuberculosis).
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