Frequency and priority of pain patients' health care use

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 400-408

  Von Korff, Michael ^a   Lin, Elizabeth H B ^a   Fenton, Joshua J ^b   Saunders, Kathleen ^a  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Chronic pain; Health care use; Illness behavior; Somatization; Temporomandibular disorder pain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATIZATION; TELEPHONE TELEMETRY; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS;

EID: 34249101533     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31804ac020     Document Type: Article

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