Prediction of long-term outcome of multidisciplinary pain treatment.
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.
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D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics / Q000601:surgery; D059408:Pain Management; D011379:Prognosis; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs