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Mélanie Racine1, Dominique Dion, Gilles Dupuis

  • 1*Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal †Centre de Recherche ‡‡Clinique de la douleur du, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Departments of ‡Family Medicine and Emergency #Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal §Research Centre of the Montreal Heart Institute ¶¶Montreal Heart Institute, Coordinating Center ∥∥∥Pain Centre, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC ∥Department of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto ¶Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences ∥∥Wasser Pain Management Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto **Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Western Ontario †††London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON ††Calgary Chronic Pain Program, Alberta Health Sciences, Calgary §§§Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB §§Pain Management Unit, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS ##Health Sciences Centre Pain Clinic, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB ***School of Nursing, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St-John's, NF ‡‡‡St-Paul's Hospital Pain Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The Clinical Journal of Pain
|July 27, 2013
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