Prevalence of self reported musculoskeletal diseases is high
Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesPublished 16 June 2003Open access
H. Susan J. Picavet, J M W Hazes
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Self reported musculoskeletal diseases are highly prevalent, with a fair to good reliability and a disease-specific pain pattern, and the coexistence of these diseases is high.
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Self reported musculoskeletal diseases are highly prevalent, with a fair to good reliability and a disease-specific pain pattern. Health surveys are a limited but valuable source of information for this group of health problems, which is not available from most other sources of information.
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