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The “Five-Minute” Mental Status Examination of Persons with Pain

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The mental status examination (MSE) is just that – a set of processes that systematically examine various aspects of a person’s mental functioning – in essence, a physical examination of the mind. A complete MSE constitutes a distinct portion of a complete psychiatric assessment. In practice, whether in psychiatry or other specialties, the MSE can be less comprehensive than a complete MSE, according to the clinical setting. MSEs can be partial – focusing only a particular aspect, such as mood or intelligence, or can be exhaustive.

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  1. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    J. David Haddox DDS, M.D., DAPBM, MRO

  2. Department of Health Policy, Purdue Pharma L.P., One Stanford Forum, Stanford, CA, 06901, USA

    J. David Haddox DDS, M.D., DAPBM, MRO

  3. Silver Hill Hospital, 208 Valley Road, New Canaan, CT, 06840, USA

    Barry Kerner M.D., DABPM

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  1. President and CEO, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, The Center for Pain Relief, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, West Virginia, USA

    Timothy R. Deer

  2. Clinic Chief, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford Pain Medicine Center, Redwood City, CA, USA, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Michael S. Leong

  3. Medical Director, Clinical Associate Professor, The LITE Center, South Miami, FL, USA, and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Albert L. Ray

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Haddox, J.D., Kerner, B. (2015). The “Five-Minute” Mental Status Examination of Persons with Pain. In: Deer, T., Leong, M., Ray, A. (eds) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1821-8_5

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