{"paper_id":"0a6a58fc-8b25-4711-bed9-d8d9f8d75e26","body_text":"Articles\nEvidence-Based Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain\n- ROBERT C. REITER\nClinical Obstetrics & Gynecology 41(2):p 422-435, June 1998.\nChronic pain is a symptom that may be defined as an unpleasant experience or sensation of discomfort of greater than 3 months duration that causes sufficient physical or psychological suffering or impairment to adversely affect quality of life. The syndrome of chronic pelvic pain in women is defined more restrictively as pain of at least 6 months duration involving the lower abdomen and pelvis and the disability and psychological morbidity with which it is associated.\nCopyright © Lippincott-Raven Publishers","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}