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Predicting Work Status for Patients in an Occupational Medicine Setting Who Report Back Pain

Karl Singer, MD
Exeter Family Medicine Associates Exeter, NH

Arch Fam Med. 1994;3(9):753.

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In their article in the April issue of the ARCHIVES, Krousel-Wood et al1 use a complex group of patient rating scales to predict fitness for work for patients with back pain based on the self-reports of these patients. While the findings point out some items that are useful predictors, overall this study will not be of much use in my day-to-day practice. First, the population is atypical, with 87% of the patients being covered by workers' compensation for a work-related injury. Second, the rating scales are too long and would take an excessive amount of time to administer and analyze. Lastly, only about 50% of subjects filled out the surveys so there was a very high nonresponse rate. Hopefully the authors can refine and simplify their questionnaire and apply it in a more representative population so that it might be more useful for family physicians in practice. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]






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