Last, knowledge regarding the potential of such patterns as predictors of intense healthcare use, adverse health outcomes (e.g., disability, adverse drug events) and/or increased severity of a given disease could be incorporated into risk stratification tools [ 41].
In contrast, headache, particularly in combination with abdominal pain, emerged from this study as the main predictor for experiencing intense pain, while sleep disorders did not predict pain intensity.
A small sample of 73 patients who received laparoscopic cholecystectomy found that a strong SOC was significant, but weak predictor of less intense postoperative pain at one week [ 40].
We focused on 3 indicators of feasibility: extent of usage (including predictors of more intense use), patients' acceptability of the technology, and limited efficacy.
Despite mounting evidence that tonic immobility occurs under intense life threats its role as predictor of PTSD severity remains by and large understudied.
Carbonic anhydrase isozyme IX intensity was the only independent predictor of DSS, with HR=9.2 for dying of disease with moderate-intense CA IX expression as compared with CA IX-negative/weak cases.
However, one aspect of celebrity worship has emerged as the strongest predictor, which is the intense-personal celebrity worship.
Findings confirm previous studies reporting intense neck pain/headache and distress as predictors for work disability after whiplash.
Since pain intensity at rash onset is widely reported as the best predictor of PHN [ 6, 45- 48], having selected for patients with intense or very intense pain we also evaluated the incidence of PHN at 3, 6 and 12 months after rash onset, as well as the total pain burden during follow-up in the 2 study arms.
Depression is a strong and independent predictor for the onset of an episode of intense and/or disabling neck and low back pain.
