What is different about worker's compensation patients? Socioeconomic predictors of baseline disability status among patients with lumbar radiculopathy

Spine

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 2019-2026

  Atlas, Steven J ^a,e   Tosteson, Tor D ^b   Hanscom, Brett ^b   Blood, Emily A ^b   Pransky, Glenn S ^c   Abdu, William A ^b   Andersson, Gunnar B ^d   Weinstein, James N ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Lumbar disc herniation; Predictors; Sciatica; Spinal stenosis; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; JOB ANALYSIS; LEGAL ASPECT; LUMBAR RADICULOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 34548119792     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318133d69b     Document Type: Article

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