The influence of patients' and primary care practitioners' beliefs and expectations about chronic musculoskeletal pain on the process of care : A systematic review of qualitative studies

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-98

  Parsons, Suzanne ^a   Harding, Geoffrey ^b   Breen, Alan ^c   Foster, Nadine ^d   Pincus, Tamar ^e   Vogel, Steve ^f   Underwood, Martin ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ANGLO EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United Kingdom)

^d KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Qualitative; Review

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PAIN; PATIENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33847311857     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000210947.34676.34     Document Type: Article

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