Pain specialists' evaluation of patient's prognosis during the first visit predicts subsequent depression and the affective dimension of pain

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 446-452

  Rudich, Zvia ^a   Lerman, Sheera F ^b   Gurevich, Boris ^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

Affective pain; Chronic pain; depression; Pain assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 77950968151     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00795.x     Document Type: Article

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