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Only 49 of 100 patients for whom data were available had bed rest and 40% of 75 employed patients lost no time from work. Proportional hazards regression analysis showed that previous chronic episodes of low back pain, initial disability level,initial pain worse when standing, initial pain worse when lying, and compensation status were significantly associated with delayed episode recovery.These factors were also related to abseteeism from work. Absenteeism from work was also influenced by job satisfaction and gender.\n                  <\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusions<\/jats:bold>\n                    : The recovery rate from acute low back pain was much higher than reported in other studies. Those studies, however, did not investigate groups of patients enrolled shortly after the onset of symptoms and often mixed acute low back pain patients with patients with exacerbations of chronic pain or sciatica. Several sociodemographic and clinical factors were of prognostic value in acute low back pain. Factors which incluenced the outcome in terms of episode recovery (mainly physical severity factors) were only partly predictive of absenteeism from work. 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