Testing for tenderness: What's the point?

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2531-2533

  Croft, P ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0033738801     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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