A systematic review of pain drawing literature: Should pain drawings be used for psychologic screening?

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 449-457

  Carnes, Dawn ^a   Ashby, Deborah ^a   Underwood, Martin ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pain drawing; Psychologic screening

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SOMATIZATION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

DATABASES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MASS SCREENING; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748442689     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000208245.41122.ac     Document Type: Article

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