Recall of medication use, self-care activities and pain intensity: A comparison of daily diaries and self-report questionnaires among low back pain patients

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 93-102

  Dunn, Kate M ^a   Jordan, Kelvin P ^a   Croft, Peter R ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

back pain; diaries; pain intensity; questionnaires; recall; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011463309     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423609990296     Document Type: Article

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