Incidence of shoulder pain in repetitive work.

Aims: To determine the predictiveness of personal and occupational factors for the onset of shoulder pain in occupations requiring repetitive work.

Methods: A sample of 598 workers in five activity sectors completed a self administered questionnaire in 1993-94 and again three years later. Both questionnaires included questions about shoulder pain.

Personal and occupational predictors of sciatica in the GAZEL cohort.

Background: The objectives of this prospective study were to investigate personal and occupational predictors of sciatica and to compare the risk factors for sciatica and those for low back pain without sciatica.

Methods: The study analysed data from 841 men, initially free from low back pain, who were followed for 2 years. Subjects were participants in the French GAZEL cohort of employees of the national electricity and gas company.

Using the dallas pain questionnaire to classify individuals with low back pain in a working population.

Study Design: Individuals with low back pain were classified by cluster analysis of their responses to the Dallas Pain Questionnaire. These results enabled development of an alternative simple classification tool that yielded results close to those obtained by the cluster analysis.

Objectives: To use the Dallas Pain Questionnaire to classify workers with low back pain, and to develop a practical classification tool for physicians.

Risk factors for sick leave due to low back pain: a prospective study.

The objectives of this prospective study were to identify predictive factors for sick leave of 8 days or more due to low back pain (LBSL) and to compare them with predictive factors for low back pain with no or shorter sick leave (LB) in a cohort of French workers. The predictive factors for LBSL were a past history of low back pain (odds ratio [OR], 7.2; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.

Assessment of radiological referral practice and effect of computer-based guidelines on radiological requests in two emergency departments.

Aim: To assess medical emergency radiology referral practice compared with a set of French guidelines and to measure the efficiency of computer-based guidelines on unnecessary medical imaging.

Materials And Methods: All radiological requests were computerized in the medical emergency departments of two French teaching hospitals. During control periods, radiological requests were recorded but no action was taken.