Judgement analysis of case severity and future risk of disability regarding chronic low back pain by general practitioners in Ireland.

Chronic low back pain is a major healthcare burden that has wide ranging effects on the individual, their family, society and the workplace. However, appropriate management and treatment is often difficult, as a majority of cases are non-specific in terms of underlying pathology. As a result, there...

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Main Authors: Christopher P Dwyer, Pádraig MacNeela, Hannah Durand, Andrea Gibbons, Bronagh Reynolds, Edel Doherty, Sinéad Conneely, Brian W Slattery, Andrew W Murphy, Brian E McGuire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5868792?pdf=render