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. 2021 Aug 4;143(2):621–625. doi: 10.1007/s00402-021-04080-y

Table 3.

Combination of single diagnoses from the tool and the spinal surgeon; each number represents one diagnose and you can see how often tool and how often the spine surgeons diagnosed it; e.g. the diagnosis spinal stenosis (2) was set ten times by the spine surgeons, whereas the tool had this result eight times and one facet joint arthritis (1) and one result was “no diagnosis” (12)

Diagnosis tool
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 Total
Diagnosis spine surgeon
 1 3 0 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 10
 2 1 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
 3 0 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 15
 4 1 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 9
 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
 6 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 10
 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 2 2 10
 10 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6
 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
 Total 9 12 8 6 2 13 19 4 2 1 8 2 86

1 = facet joint arthritis, 2 = spinal stenosis, 3 = herniated disc, 4 = low back pain, 5 = osteoporotic vertebra fracture, 6 = Iliosacral joint block, 7 = thoracic block, 8 = cervical myelogelosis, 9 = spondylodiscitis, 10 = spondylolisthesis, 11 = fibromyalgia, 12 = no diagnosis, 13 = cervicocephalic syndrome