Pain in its environmental context: Implications for designing environments to enhance pain control

Pain

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-244

  Malenbaum, Sara ^a   Keefe, Francis J ^a   Williams, Amanda C de C ^b   Ulrich, Roger ^c   Somers, Tamara J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LIGHT EXPOSURE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; PAIN;

EID: 37849047133     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.12.002     Document Type: Review

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