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The course of chronic and recurrent low back pain in the general population

  • Oezguer Tamcan

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Berne, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Anne F. Mannion

      Affiliations

    • Spine Center, Schulthess Clinic, Zürich, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Claudia Eisenring

      Affiliations

    • Winterthur Institute of Health Economics WIG, Winterthur, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Bruno Horisberger

      Affiliations

    • Winterthur Institute of Health Economics WIG, Winterthur, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Achim Elfering

      Affiliations

    • Department for Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Urs Müller

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Evaluative Research in Orthopaedics, MEM Center, University of Bern, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. IEFO, MEM Center, University of Bern, Stauffacherstrasse 78, ch-3014 Bern, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 31 631 59 42; fax: +41 31 631 59 31.

Received 27 October 2008 ,Revised 22 March 2010 ,Accepted 20 May 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00322-2

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.05.019

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