Agreement between diagnoses reached by clinical examination and available reference standards: A prospective study of 216 patients with lumbopelvic pain

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Laslett, Mark ^a   McDonald, Barry ^b   Tropp, Hans ^a   Aprill, Charles N ^c   Öberg, Birgitta ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISABILITY; DISKOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INJECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LEG DISEASE; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE ROOT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECORDING; SACROILIAC JOINT; SAMPLE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; PELVIC PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 23944494930     PISSN: 14712474     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-6-28     Document Type: Article

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