Merskey H
J Human Stress. 1978 Jun;4(2):3-7. doi: 10.1080/0097840X.1978.9934979.
The problems of classification of pain syndromes are briefly reviewed. A completely satisfactory taxonomy of pain has to be exhaustive and its categories must be mutually exclusive. This is not feasible in medicine in general and even less so in regard to pain which requires classification using several axes. Practical groupings of syndromes can be made which are helpful clinically. A list of these is provided, and principles which apply to the clinical investigation of patients with pain are stated.
简要回顾了疼痛综合征的分类问题。一个完全令人满意的疼痛分类法必须详尽无遗，其类别必须相互排斥。这在一般医学中是不可行的，而在疼痛方面更是如此，因为疼痛需要使用多个轴进行分类。可以进行有助于临床的综合征实用分组。提供了这些分组的列表，并阐述了适用于疼痛患者临床调查的原则。
