Psychological approaches in pain management: What works?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 547-552

  Turk, Dennis C ^a   Okifuji, Akiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031730961     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-199810000-00017     Document Type: Review

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