title: Quality-of-life, legal-financial, and disability issues in fibromyalgia.
abstract: Patients with fibromyalgia have an altered quality of life that is hard to quantitate using existing indices. The principal legal issues associated with the syndrome are: Does fibromyalgia exist? Can it be caused by or flared by stress or trauma? Does disability apply to fibromyalgia and if so, how? These issues are critically reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine, 8737 Beverly Building, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA. dwallace@ucla.edu
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Hallegua
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000191:economics* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications