Nocturnal back pain: useful diagnostic indicator of serious spinal pathology?
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Prevalence of and screening for serious spinal pathology in patients presenting to primary care settings with acute low back pain.
OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of serious pathology in patients presenting to primary care settings with acute low back pain, and to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of recommended "red flag" screening questions. METHODS An inception cohort of 1,172 consecutive patients receiving primary care for acute low back pain was recruited from primary care clinics in Sydney, Australia. At the i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Clinical Practice Neurology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1745-834X,1745-8358
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0026