The International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: as valid in 2018 as in 1979, but in need of regularly updated footnotes

Abstract. . Milton Cohen, John Quintner, and Simon van Rysewyk proposed a revision of the IASP definition of pain of 1979. This commentary summarizes, why this proposal is useful for guiding assessment of pain, but not its definition.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rolf-Detlef Treede
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2018-04-01
Series:PAIN Reports
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000643