The Pain-Suffering Association, A Review

Pain Medicine (United States)

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1057-1072

  Fishbain, David A ^a,b   Lewis, John E ^a   Gao, Jinrun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c State Farm Insurance   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Pain; Acute Pain Patients; Assisted Suicide; Cancer; Chronic Pain; Chronic Pain Patients; Euthanasia; Existential Suffering; Hastened Death; Mental Defect; Mental Pain; Pain; Psychological Pain; Review; Suffering; Terminal Illness

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ASSISTED SUICIDE; CHRONIC NONMALIGNANT PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUTHANASIA; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HOSPICE PATIENT; HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUFFERING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPICE CARE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; TRENDS;

CHRONIC PAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84932198141     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pme.12686     Document Type: Review

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