Waiting for treatment for chronic pain - a survey of existing benchmarks: toward establishing evidence-based benchmarks for medically acceptable waiting times.

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Published in Pain Res Manag on January 01, 2007

Authors

Mary E Lynch1, Fiona A Campbell, Alexander J Clark, Michael J Dunbar, David Goldstein, Philip Peng, Jennifer Stinson, Helen Tupper, Canadian Pain Society Wait Times Task Force

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry and Anestesia, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. mary.lynch@dal.ca

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