"First do no harm": why don't we measure adverse events routinely in psychological treatment trials for people with chronic pain?

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Editorial

Louise Sharpe. Pain. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;161(4):666-667.

doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001771.

¹ School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Comment on

Measuring and reporting adverse events in clinical trials of psychological treatments for chronic pain.
Palermo TM, Slack K, Loren D, Eccleston C, Jamison RN. Palermo TM, et al. Pain. 2020 Apr;161(4):713-717. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001772. Pain. 2020. PMID: 31815914 No abstract available.

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