A 45-year-old woman referred for an independent medical evaluation by her insurer

Affiliations

¹ Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (Busse), Department of Anesthesia (Busse, Ebrahim) and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Busse, Ebrahim), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Bruun-Meyer), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine (Ebrahim), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Swiss Academy of Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel (Kunz), Basel, Switzerland bussejw@mcmaster.ca.
² Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (Busse), Department of Anesthesia (Busse, Ebrahim) and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Busse, Ebrahim), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Bruun-Meyer), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine (Ebrahim), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Swiss Academy of Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel (Kunz), Basel, Switzerland.

Case Reports

Jason W Busse et al. CMAJ. 2014.

. 2014 Nov 4;186(16):E627-30.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.130863. Epub 2014 Sep 8.

¹ Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (Busse), Department of Anesthesia (Busse, Ebrahim) and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Busse, Ebrahim), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Bruun-Meyer), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine (Ebrahim), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Swiss Academy of Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel (Kunz), Basel, Switzerland bussejw@mcmaster.ca.
² Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care (Busse), Department of Anesthesia (Busse, Ebrahim) and Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Busse, Ebrahim), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.; Faculty of Medicine (Bruun-Meyer), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine (Ebrahim), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; Swiss Academy of Insurance Medicine, University Hospital Basel (Kunz), Basel, Switzerland.

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