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

Table 9 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	3	4 or 5
Number of patients	170	148	173	133	39
Percentage of these patients with good outcome	82	75	69	58	36

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

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