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The study of pain is challenging. As pain is interpreted as a personal, multidimensional experience, difficulties arise in defining pain, measuring pain, and interpreting outcomes. Care must be exercised in understanding how to handle variables to avoid misinterpretation and in appreciating the practical value of accuracy over precision if the results of the study are to be clinically relevant.
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Hartrick, C.T. (2019). Special Features of Pain Studies. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_22
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