The Saskatchewan Health and Back Pain Survey

Grading the severity of chronic pain

1992 • 2,891 citations

An epidemiologic comparison of pain complaints

1988 • 981 citations

Descriptive Epidemiology of Low-back Pain and Its Related Medical Care in the United States

1987 • 845 citations

Chronic Pain in a Geographically Defined General Population

1993 • 699 citations

Neck Pain in the General Population

1994 • 684 citations

The prevalence of pain complaints in a general population

1984 • 613 citations

Prevalence, Determinants, and Consequences of Chronic Neck Pain in Finland

1991 • 551 citations

Graded chronic pain status: an epidemiologic evaluation

1990 • 499 citations

The prevalence of pain in a general population. The results of a postal survey in a county of Sweden

1989 • 479 citations

Estimating the Prevalence of Low Back Pain in the General Population

1995 • 431 citations

The Chronic Pain Grade questionnaire: validation and reliability in postal research

1997 • 429 citations

Back Pain in Primary Care

1993 • 403 citations

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESPONDENTS AND NON-RESPONDENTS IN A POPULATION-BASED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE STUDY1

1978 • 397 citations

Relative importance of musculoskeletal disorders as a cause of chronic health problems, disability, and health care utilization: findings from the 1990 Ontario Health Survey.

1994 • 396 citations

First onset of common pain symptoms: a prospective study of depression as a risk factor

1993 • 345 citations

Characteristics of physician visits for back symptoms: a national perspective.

1983 • 293 citations

The Saskatchewan Health and Back Pain survey : The prevalence of low Back Pain and related disability in Saskatchewan adults. Point of view

1998 • 261 citations

Mortality and Cancer Rates in Nonrespondents to a Prospective Study of Older Women: 5-Year Follow-up

1994 • 185 citations

The Prevalence of Low Back Pain in the Literature A Structured Review of 26 Nordic Studies From 1954 to 1993

1995 • 162 citations

Headache and neck or shoulder pain - frequent and disabling complaints in the general population

1993 • 141 citations

The Commonest Rheumatic Complaints of Over Six Weeks' Duration in a Twelve-month Period in a Defined Swedish PopulationPrevalences and Relationships

1989 • 133 citations

Musculoskeletal disorders as determinants of disability in Finns aged 30 years or more

1993 • 129 citations

Pain from the Neck-Shoulder Region and Sick Leave

1980 • 126 citations

How Common Is Low Back Pain in the Nordic Population?

1996 • 123 citations

The associations of neck pain with radiological abnormalities of the cervical spine and personality traits in a general population.

1991 • 122 citations

Descriptive Epidemiology and Public Health Aspects of Low Back Pain

1989 • 112 citations

Musculoskeletal pains and depression in a middle-aged finnish population

1995 • 102 citations

Non-response bias in studies of diabetic complications: The rochester diabetic neuropathy study

1993 • 63 citations

Baseline characteristics are not sufficient indicators of non-response bias follow up studies.

1992 • 53 citations

A confidence interval approach to investigating non-response bias and monitoring response to postal questionnaires.

1991 • 51 citations

CHARACTERISTICS OF RESPONDENTS AND NONRESPONDENTS TO A QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ESTIMATING COMMUNITY MOOD1

1973 • 38 citations

Adjusting for nonresponse bias in a health examination survey.

1993 • 24 citations