An ethical analysis of crisis in chronic pain care: Facts, issues and problems in pain medicine; part I

Pain Physician

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 483-490

  Giordano, James ^a   Schatman, Michael E ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Crisis; Ethics; Humanities; Pain medicine; Philosophy; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL MEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPLOYMENT; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56549084985     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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