All remaining variables (sex, comorbidity, depression levels, attitude toward medical cure) were useful in predicting heavy health care use, but their respective ORs did not reach statistical significance after entering the variable “type of health care user prior to recruitment” into the model.
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Identifying heavy health care users among primary care patients with chronic non-cancer pain.
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However, the associated OR failed to reach statistical significance, most likely because its variance was largely accounted for by patients’ health care use in the prerecruitment year.