Does this patient with shoulder pain have rotator cuff disease? The rational clinical examination systematic review

JAMA

Volumn 310, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 837-847

  Hermans, Job ^a   Luime, Jolanda J ^a   Meuffels, Duncan E ^a   Reijman, Max ^a   Simel, David L ^b   Bierma Zeinstra, Sita M A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DROP ARM TEST; EXTERNAL ROTATION LAG TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRASPINATUS MUSCLE; INTERNAL ROTATION LAG TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; PAINFUL ARC TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOULDER PAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD; STRENGTH TEST; SUBSCAPULARIS MUSCLE; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 84883083833     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2013.276187     Document Type: Review

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