The symptom of night pain in a back pain triage clinic

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1985-1988

  Harding, Ian J ^a,b   Davies, Evan ^a   Buchanan, Elaine ^a   Fairbank, Jeremy T ^a  

^a NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b The Inch   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Back pain; Night pain; Serious pathology; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NIGHT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACK PAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN CLINICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL DISEASES; TRIAGE;

EID: 24744469646     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000176313.02258.5e     Document Type: Article

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