How a pain management program for patients and spouses can benefit their lives?
Carles Ballús-Creus1, Alba Peñarroya2, Julian Leff3
1Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain cballus@clinic.ub.es.
The International Journal of Social Psychiatry
|April 6, 2016
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