Computer-aided surface estimation of pain drawings - intra- and inter-rater reliability

Journal of Pain Research

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 135-141

  Persson, Ann L ^a   Garametsos, Sofia ^b   Pedersen, Jonna ^b  

^a Rehabiliterings og Forskningscentret for Torturofre   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Area calculation; Assessment; Chronic pain; Digitized pain drawing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055069206     PISSN: 11787090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/JPR.S18637     Document Type: Article

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