Quantitative sensory testing scaled up for multicenter clinical research networks: A promising start

Pain

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-220

  Petersen, Karin Lottrup ^a   Rowbotham, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SENSORY EVALUATION; STANDARDIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33745685823     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.04.025     Document Type: Editorial

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