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Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages 50-56 , April 2010

Graded back pain revisited – Do latent variable models change our understanding of severe back pain in the general population?

  • Carsten Oliver Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Methods of Community Medicine, Institute for Community Medicine, Walther Rathenau Str. 48, 17487 Greifswald, Germany. Tel.: +49 3834 867768; fax: +49 3834 867766.
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  • Heiner Raspe

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social Medicine, University at Luebeck, Germany
    • ,
  • Thomas Kohlmann

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Germany

Received 25 March 2009 ,Revised 18 January 2010 ,Accepted 29 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.01.025

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