Journal:
:acta medica iranica
0
seyed mohammad seyedmehdi chronic respiratory diseases research center, national research institute of tuberculosis and lung diseases (nritld), shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
faezeh dehghan department of occupational medicine, school of medicine, aja university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mostafa ghaffari brain and spinal cord injury research center (basir), neuroscience institute, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. and department of occupational medicine, school of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mirsaeed attarchi department of forensic medicine, school of medicine, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht, iran.
bahareh khansari department of occupational medicine, school of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
bijan heidari department of orthopedic, school of medicine, hamadan university of medical sciences, hamadan, iran.
recognizing patients at a higher risk of developing chronic low back pain (lbp) is important in industrial medicine. this study aimed to assess the power and quality of general health questionnaire (ghq) for prediction of the odds of chronicity of acute lbp. this study was conducted on industrial workers. all subjects with acute lbp who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled. demographic char...