title: Approaches to treatment decisions for psychiatric comorbidity in the management of the chronic pain patient.
abstract: A number of different types of comorbidities have been described within psychiatric patients. These comorbidity types are reviewed and their application to the chronic pain population is discussed. These various types of comorbidities are then utilized to generate an approach for treatment decisions in the management of the chronic pain patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Fishbain
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence