Intensity of chronic pain - The wrong metric?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 2098-2099

  Ballantyne, Jane C ^a   Sullivan, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

CHRONIC PAIN; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; ADDICTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; HISTORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC PAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948399695     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1507136     Document Type: Review

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