Estimating the Risk of Chronic Pain: Development and Validation of a Prognostic Model (PICKUP) for Patients with Acute Low Back Pain

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002019

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PLoS Med. 2016 May; 13(5): e1002019.

Published online 2016 May 17. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002019

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Net number of unnecessary interventions avoided if patients in the external validation sample were screened using PICKUP.

The net reduction (y-axis) is the number of unnecessary interventions avoided without missing any patients who develop chronic LBP. The cutoff threshold (x-axis) is the range of potential predicted risk cutoffs where a patient or physician would decide to pursue further intervention.