Provider judgments of patients in pain: Seeking symptom certainty

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-34

  Tait, Raymond C ^a   Chibnall, John T ^a   Kalauokalani, Donna ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Judgment; Pain assessment; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AFFECT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPATHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOM;

AFFECT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 59649103627     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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