Experience of fibromyalgia: Qualitative study

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 46, Issue MAY, 2000, Pages 1100-1106

  Raymond, Marie Claude ^b   Brown, Judith Belle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Tour du Sud 35ième Étage ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034185763     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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