A brief and unobtrusive instrument to detect simulation and exaggeration in patients with whiplash syndrome

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 53-56

  Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Forti, Sara ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c   Flor, Herta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment; Exaggeration; Malingering; Pain; Simulation; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALINGERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0242585344     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00233-7     Document Type: Article

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