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Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 15, Issue S1, 2014, Pages

  Schoomaker, Eric ^a   Buckenmaier, Chester ^a,b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic Pain; Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHRONIC PAIN; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANALGESIA; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; TRENDS;

CHRONIC PAIN; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; PAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84921425032     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12385     Document Type: Article

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