Tips for managing chronic pain: Implementing the latest guidelines

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Marcus, Dawn A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CAPSAICIN; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; TIZANIDINE; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BURNOUT; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MYALGIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0037389708     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2003.04.1400     Document Type: Review

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