Considering the Potential for an Increase in Chronic Pain After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal Pain

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 2020 Jul 24

PMID 32701829

Citations 141

Authors

Daniel J Clauw

Winfried Hauser

Steven P Cohen

Mary-Ann Fitzcharles

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