Table III.
Disposition on Selected Encounters with Primary Pain Diagnoses, Army Active Duty Soldiers (non-deployed), FY2012
| Soldiers with a Primary Pain Diagnosis (N = 175,753) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outpatient Military Encounter Dispositiona | |||||||
| N | Released No Limitations | Released Work Duty Limitsd | Sick at Home or in Quartersd | Immediate Referral | Otherb | Missing | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | ||
| Pain categoriesc | |||||||
| Peripheral/CNS | 5,889 | 53.6 | 23.3 | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 20.8 |
| Osteoarthritis | 7,661 | 44.7 | 30.9 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 22.8 |
| Back and neck pain (any type) | 66,407 | 49.0 | 35.3 | 6.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 7.9 |
| Headache/migraine | 21,152 | 61.5 | 10.0 | 15.8 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 10.4 |
| Non-traumatic joint disorders | 83,614 | 45.7 | 43.6 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 8.0 |
| Other musculoskeletal | 87,759 | 46.1 | 39.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 10.3 |
| Visceral/pelvic | 22,259 | 54.0 | 12.0 | 10.5 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 18.5 |
| Chronic non-specific | 7,634 | 54.0 | 25.1 | 2.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 17.2 |
aHighest disposition among all encounters (by soldier) with primary diagnosis for each pain category. Military duty limitations were only captured in the direct care setting, and thus was coded as missing for the 16.3% of outpatient encounters that were in purchased care settings.
bOther: left AMA, admitted, expired.
cCategories are not mutually exclusive.
dT-tests with Levene’s test to determine equality of variances and Bonferroni’s correction to adjust for multiple comparisons were utilized to test for associations of work duty limitations and sick at home/quarters between types of pain categories. All pairwise tests were significant at p < 0.05, with the exception of osteoarthritis-other musculoskeletal (p = ns).