How could the validity of the DSM-IV pain disorder be improved in reference to the concept that it is supposed to identify?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-29

  Boland, Robert J ^a  

^a MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

American Psychiatric Association; Chronic Pain; General Medical Condition; Pain Disorder; Somatization Disorder

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0036466777     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-002-0020-y     Document Type: Article

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