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. 2010 Jul 3;19(12):2095–2109. doi: 10.1007/s00586-010-1504-9

Table 3.

Summary of history and reported signs in studies with individual data

Signs Historya
Poor Satisfactory Good
None 1 0 0
Routine sciatica signs only 2 1 2
PS signs only 2 4 0
Sciatica and PS signs 8 10 22

aThe quality of history is graded according to the number of items missing in the report: good ≤2; satisfactory = 3 or 4; poor ≥5. The overall quality is represented by values (history and signs) ranging from poor to maximum achievable (shown in underline, italic, bold, bold italic)