Patients' Self-Criticism Is a Stronger Predictor of Physician's Evaluation of Prognosis Than Pain Diagnosis or Severity in Chronic Pain Patients

Journal of Pain

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 210-216

  Rudich, Zvia ^a   Lerman, Sheera F ^b   Gurevich, Boris ^a   Weksler, Natan ^a   Shahar, Golan ^b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; pain assessment; self criticism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 39449099952     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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