Understanding the experience of pain in terminally ill patients

Lancet

Volumn 357, Issue 9265, 2001, Pages 1311-1315

  Weiss, Stefan C ^a   Emanuel, Linda L ^b   Fairclough, Diane L ^c   Emanuel, Ezekiel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEGRO; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035962343     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04515-3     Document Type: Article

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