Factors predicting short-term outcome of nerve blocks in the management of chronic pain
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 10 (3) , 323-330
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(81)90092-0
Abstract
To identify those chronic pain patients unlikely to improve from nerve blocks, preadmission questionnaires of 337 patients were studied and various pre-existing factors were analyzed against short term treatment results. Factors associated with significant reductions in treatment success (P < 0.05) included: being injured at work, being out of work because of pain, receiving financial compensation, involvement in legal action, previous surgery for pain, long duration of pain, high pain severity ratings, frequent analgesic use and use of tranquilizers.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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