Table 2.

Complete case and multiple imputed model compositions for the outcome measure persistent shoulder disability

	missing values	CCA	MI-5
		rank	rank
persistent shoulder disability*	72 (12.3%)
inability to perform daily activities	8 (1.4%)	1	4
shoulder complaints in the past year	27 (4.6%)	2
both shoulders afflicted	0 (0%)	3	3
concomitant lower back pain	0 (0%)	4	1
concomitant lower extremity pain	0 (0%)	5
more disability at baseline	2 (0.3%)	6	7
longer duration of complaints	1 (0.2%)		2
higher scores for somatisation	3 (0.5%)		5
higher scores for external locus of control	33 (5.6%)		6
older age	0 (0%)		8

CCA      - complete case analysis

MI -5     - multiple imputation using 5 imputation files

rank      - the order of appearance of predictors in the derived model arranged by their predictive ability (regression coefficient)

*           - outcome measure