Categorizing Patients with Occupational Low Back Pain by Use of the Quebec Task Force Classification System Versus Pain Pattern Classification Procedures: Discriminant and Predictive Validity

Physical Therapy

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 243-254

  Werneke, Mark W ^a   Hart, Dennis L ^b  

^a CentraState Medical Center   (United States)

^b Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralization; Classification; Discriminant and predictive validity; Low back pain; Pain pattern; Quebec Task Force

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 1542376215     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ptj/84.3.243     Document Type: Article

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