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What are the different factors that affect prognosis?
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They are baseline attributes that are predictive of the outcome:
1) Demographic (age, gender, socioeconomic factors) 2) Individual patient behaviors (fear-avoidance, copers) 3) Disease specific (severity of disease, degree of test abnormality) 4) Comorbid (presence or absence of other conditions) |
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What is the overall prognosis?
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The incidence of outcome in the study (probability of outcome)
Given as a % |
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When are prognostic factors considered "independent?"
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When they emerge as statistically significant predictors in a multivariate logistic regression or Cox model regression analysis considering multiple potential prognostic factors in combination
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