Internist Judgments of Chronic Low Back Pain

Pain Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 231-237

  Chibnall, John T ^a   Dabney, Anne ^a   Tait, Raymond C ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgment; Low Back Pain; Observer Variation; Physicians; Social Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242320031     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2000.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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