Table 2.

Patients referred to an orthopaedic surgeon at 12 months

Variable	Control group Number (%)	Treatment group Number (%)	p value*
Recruitment site
University Clinic	48 (32)	42 (28)	0.496
Veterans’Administration Clinic	42 (41)	34 (38)	0.631
Sex
Male	51 (41)	43 (37)	0.455
Female	39 (30)	33 (27)	0.606

*chi-square tests.