TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Work Disability and Chronic Pain: A Review of Psychosocial and Environmental Factors A1 - Stone, Melissa T. A1 - Kulich, Ronald J. A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - Disability and chronic pain commonly co-occur, particularly in the case of diagnoses with controversial etiologies. When disability impacts work, the contributory factors become even more complex, with occupational disability bearing scant relationship to a patient's specific clinical state. Given the weak relationship between medical diagnosis, clinical severity, and work disability, investigators have championed the decade of “yellow flags,” outlining a series of proposed predictors of work disability, including psychosocial, economic, and environmental factors. Identification of these factors in the individual patient can assist the clinician in achieving a better outcome. Conversely, failure to adequately assess can contribute to unnecessary or inappropriate treatment and chronic disability. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131932301 ER -