Improving the evaluation of benign low back pain

Spine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 952-960

  Marriott, Anne ^a   Newman, Nicholas M ^b   Gracovetsky, Serge A ^a,c,d   Richards, Mark P ^a   Asselin, Steeve ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinician; Diagnosis; Discordance; Function; Low back pain; Machine; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MOVEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0033562591     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199905150-00005     Document Type: Article

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