The epidemiology of chronic generalized musculoskeletal pain

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 547-561

  Gran, Jan Tore ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chronic widespread pain; Epidemiology; Fibromyalgia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

BONE PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBROMYALGIA; GENDER; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MYALGIA; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NORTH AMERICA; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0038299367     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6942(03)00042-1     Document Type: Review

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