Chronic widespread pain as a medico-legal issue

Bailliere's Best Practice and Research in Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 531-543

  Gordon, Duncan A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Disability; Fibromyalgia; Medico legal

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0033383186     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/berh.1999.0043     Document Type: Article

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