Implementing a Group Physical Therapy Program for Veterans (GroupPT): Function QUERI 3.0
Implementing a Group Physical Therapy Program for Veterans With Knee Osteoarthritis: Function QUERI 3.0 (QUE 25-008)
VA Office of Research and Development
20 participants
Apr 30, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Implementing Group Physical Therapy for Veterans with Knee Osteoarthritis (Group PT): Function QUERI 3.0 aims to compare two implementation approaches for implementing Group PT in 20 VA facilities using a type III effectiveness-implementation hybrid study framework and parallel cluster randomized trial (CRT) design.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Sites are eligible to participate if they have:
- outpatient PT clinicians (one primary and one back-up) for delivering Group PT
- space to conduct group sessions (if delivering Group PT in person) or ability to conduct visits via telehealth (video)
- Patients will be eligible for Group PT if they have a clinician diagnosis of symptomatic knee OA.
Exclusion Criteria2
- Site will be ineligible to participate if they are already conducting a group physical therapy class for patients with knee OA.
- Patients will be ineligible for Group PT if they have a substantial fall risk or co-occurring health conditions that would make participation in a group exercise class unsafe.
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Interventions
The Foundational Arm includes the following activities: Toolkit, kickoff call, SharePoint, TEAMS channel, office hours calls, site specific data reports.
The REACH Arm includes everything in the Foundational Arm, plus additional components: targeted data reports and external facilitation.
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NCT07215572