The Nordic Subpopulation Research Programme: prediction of treatment outcome in patients with low back pain treated by chiropractors - does the psychological profile matter?

Table 7 The percentage of patients with good outcome at the 4^th visit by the number of positive statistically significant predictor variables

Number of predictor variables present in patients	0	1	2 or 3
Number of patients	317	331	60
Percentage of these patients with good outcome	79	64	45

The predictor variables in this analysis were:total subvention, total duration of pain in the past year, and general health. A positive dose response was noted for all three combinations of predictor variables.

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