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Quality-of-life, legal-financial, and disability issues in fibromyalgia

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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.

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Wallace, D.J., Hallegua, D.S. Quality-of-life, legal-financial, and disability issues in fibromyalgia. Current Science Inc 5, 313–319 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-001-0020-3

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