A Study of the Natural History of Back Pain

Spine (Phila Pa 1976) · 1983 · Classic · cited 3,378 times

Martín Roland, Richard Morris

Spine

SUMMARY — THE REDUCTIONThis paper describes development and validation of a short, simple, sensitive, and reliable questionnaire for patient self-rated back pain disability, proposed as an outcome measure for future treatment trials.
Abstract, as published

One of the problems in mounting a trial of treatment of back pain is the lack of suitable outcome measures. This paper describes the development and validation of a questionnaire designed to measure selfrated disability due to back pain. The questionnaire is short, simple, sensitive, and reliable. It would be suitable for use in future trials of treatment.

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