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TRUTH IN TESTING
Published peer-reviewed studies show that some physicians spend less than 15 minutes with patients, while other “high volume” physicians have reduced by 30% the amount of time they spend with their patients. (1,2)

Other peer-reviewed and published studies document that anywhere from 40% to 67% of chronic pain patients involved in litigation are misdiagnosed (3,4); 71% of patients told they had RSD/CRPS I actually had just peripheral nerve entrapments, while 26% had a combination of both peripheral nerve entrapments and CRPS.  (5)  
The VERITAS Diagnostic Paradigm & Treatment Algorithm successfully addresses the time constraints facing many physicians and their consequent inability to take the detailed and comprehensive patient histories that are an absolute prerequisite for accurate diagnoses.
The DP&TA is a computer administered and scored expert system. It was developed by the Medical Director of a highly regarded Pain Clinic who was a part-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This physician also originally developed the Pain Validity Test with other faculty members at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,

The DP&TA is an exact replication of the highly effective screening, diagnostic, and medical testing protocols used at this Clinic with more than 12,000 pain patients over a thirty year period. 96.7% of the time it has proved able to capture the diagnoses personally made by the Clinic’s Medical Director. (6)
To put this achievement in perspective, workers compensation insurance carriers commonly report return to work rates of 1% or less for claimants who have been out for work for more than two years. (7)
In contrast, the Clinic published outcome studies involving patients out of work for an average of 4.9 years documenting that the Clinic achieved return-to-work rates of

   • 62.5% for auto accident claimants.
  
• 19.5% for workers compensation claimants  

 Moreover, the Clinic achieved a 90% reduction in the use of medication and a 50% reduction in doctor visits. (8)
These outstanding results were obtained using the techniques embodied in the Pain Validity Test and the Diagnostic Paradigm & Treatment Algorithm .
 
67% of Chronic Pain Patients in Litigation Are Misdiagnosed.
Solution? The Diagnostic Paradigm & Treatment Algorithm.