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. 2012 Dec 20;13:257. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-13-257

Table 4.

Binary logistic regression of the most sensitive and specific combination of pain drawing criteria

Pain drawing criteria OR/unit (95% CI) Log likelihood p-value
Total number of marks
1.7 (1.3, 2.3)
- 25
< 0.001
Length of the longest mark
1.1 (1.0, 1.1)
 
0.029
Symmetric patterns (yes/no) 6.5 (1.6, 26.9)   0.010

This tabulated group lists the three best pain drawing criteria (two continuous plus one binary) with the highest power to distinguish somatoform-functional from somatic-nociceptive pain, the criteria are included in a model as separate variables.