Abstract
Seventy-seven patients treated in a multidisciplinary pain program were assessed for treatment outcome according to Roberts' and Reinhardt's criteria, at a one to five-year follow-up. By these criteria, 47% were successes and 53% were not. Fourteen commonly collected demographic variables were then used in a discriminant analysis procedure to predict membership in the successful and unsuccessful groups. Age, compensation, education level, use of psychotropic medications, and number of pain surgeries formed a parsimonious set of predictor variables that correctly categorized more than 70% of the subjects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 293-296 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
Volume | 67 |
Issue number | 5 |
State | Published - May 1986 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
- Rehabilitation