Predicting long-term functional limitations among back pain patients in primary care settings

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-43

  Dionne, Clermont E ^a,c   Koepsell, Thomas D ^a   Von Korff, Michael ^b   Deyo, Richard A ^a   Barlow, William E ^b   Checkoway, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Back pain; Functional limitations; Outcome prediction; Recursive partitioning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0031047144     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(96)00313-7     Document Type: Article

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