"They don't want anything to do with you": Patient views of primary care management of chronic pain

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1791-1798

  Upshur, Carole C ^a   Bacigalupe, Gonzalo ^b   Luckmann, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Focus Groups; Pain Management; Patient Views; Primary Care; Qualitative Methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRUST;

EID: 78650078523     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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