Ethnic differences in pain among outpatients with terminal and end-stage chronic illness

Pain Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Rabow, Michael W ^a   Dibble, Suzanne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Ethnicity; Outpatients; Pain; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANCER; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22144432242     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2005.05037.x     Document Type: Article

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