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. 2023 Dec;17(6):514-518.
doi: 10.1177/20494637231208167. Epub 2023 Oct 18.

Taking the pain out of pain

Catharine Montgomery  1 , Helen M Poole  1 , Emma Begley  2 , Yasir Abbasi  3
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Taking the pain out of pain

Catharine Montgomery et al. Br J Pain. 2023 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: Chronic pain; pain; pain clinics; pain management; pain measurement.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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