Using screening tools to identify neuropathic pain

Affiliations

¹ Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Clinical Teaching and Research Unit, St. Gemma's Hospice, 329 Harrogate Road, Leeds LS17 6QD, UK Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Pare, Paris, France Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Wisconsin, USA Department of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany Pain Clinic, Kinik für Anaesthesiologie, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Neural Plasticity Research Group, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA Neurology Clinic, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Department of Psychology, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Danish Pain Research Center, Åarhus University Hospital, Åarhus, Denmark.

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Michael I Bennett et al. Pain. 2007 Feb.

. 2007 Feb;127(3):199-203.

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.10.034. Epub 2006 Dec 19.

¹ Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, Clinical Teaching and Research Unit, St. Gemma's Hospice, 329 Harrogate Road, Leeds LS17 6QD, UK Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Pare, Paris, France Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Wisconsin, USA Department of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany Pain Clinic, Kinik für Anaesthesiologie, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Neural Plasticity Research Group, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA Neurology Clinic, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany Department of Psychology, Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany Danish Pain Research Center, Åarhus University Hospital, Åarhus, Denmark.

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