RT Book, Section A1 Stone, Melissa T. A1 Kulich, Ronald J. A2 Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 Wootton, R. Joshua A2 Warfield, Carol A. SR Print(0) ID 1131932301 T1 Work Disability and Chronic Pain: A Review of Psychosocial and Environmental Factors T2 Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071766838 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131932301 RD 2024/03/29 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.