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Dennis C. Turk is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has a significant body of research in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on chronic pain and its management. Their research spans several subfields including pharmacology, public health, environmental and occupational health, economics and econometrics, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's primary research topics cover a variety of aspects related to pain and rehabilitation. These topics include:

  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life
  • Pain management and placebo effect
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research
  • Pain mechanisms and treatments
  • Sex and gender in healthcare

Dennis C. Turk has contributed to multiple highly cited papers such as:

  • The Prevalence of Psychiatric and Chronic Pain Comorbidities in Fibromyalgia: an ACTTION systematic review (2020), published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Interpretation of chronic pain clinical trial outcomes: IMMPACT recommended considerations (2020), published in Pain
  • Persistent Spinal Pain Syndrome: A Proposal for Failed Back Surgery Syndrome and ICD-11 (2021), published in Pain Medicine
  • Clinical outcome assessment in clinical trials of chronic pain treatments (2021), published in PAIN Reports
  • Optimizing and Accelerating the Development of Precision Pain Treatments for Chronic Pain: IMMPACT Review and Recommendations (2022), published in Journal of Pain

Their frequent co-authors include Robert H. Dworkin, Jennifer S. Gewandter, John D. Markman, McKenzie Ferguson, and Ewan D McNicol.

Publications by Dennis C. Turk appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • Pain
  • Journal of Pain
  • PAIN Reports
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
  • Pain Medicine

Besides journal articles, Dennis C. Turk has published a book titled The pain survival guide: How to become resilient and reclaim your life (Revised edition), released in 2020 by the American Psychological Association.

Best Publications

  • Topical Review and RecommendationsCore outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;John T. Farrar;Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

  • The Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain: Scientific Advances and Future Directions

    Robert J. Gatchel;Yuan Bo Peng;Madelon L. Peters;Perry N. Fuchs

  • Core outcome domains for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations.

    Dennis C Turk;Robert H Dworkin;Robert R Allen;Nicholas Bellamy

  • Interpreting the Clinical Importance of Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Dennis C. Turk;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Dorcas Beaton

  • The West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI)

    Robert D. Kerns;Dennis C. Turk;Thomas E. Rudy

  • Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: evidence-based recommendations.

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Miroslav Backonja;John T. Farrar

  • Facilitating Treatment Adherence: A Practitioner'S Guidebook

    Donald Meichenbaum;Dennis C. Turk

  • Advances in Neuropathic Pain: Diagnosis, Mechanisms, and Treatment Recommendations

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

  • Efficacy of Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment Centers: A Meta-Analytic Review

    H. Flor;T. Fydrich;D. C. Turk

  • Recommendations for the Pharmacological Management of Neuropathic Pain: An Overview and Literature Update

    Robert H. Dworkin;Alec B. O'Connor;Joseph Audette;Ralf Baron

  • Psychological factors in chronic pain: Evolution and revolution.

    Dennis C. Turk;Akiko Okifuji

  • An internet survey of 2,596 people with fibromyalgia

    Robert M Bennett;Jessie Jones;Dennis C Turk;I Jon Russell

  • Report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain

    Richard A. Deyo;Samuel F. Dworkin;Dagmar Amtmann;Gunnar Andersson

  • Biopsychosocial perspective on chronic pain.

    Dennis C. Turk;Elena S. Monarch

  • American Pain Society recommendations for improving the quality of acute and cancer pain management: American Pain Society quality of care task force

    Debra B. Gordon;June L. Dahl;Christine Miaskowski;Bill McCarberg

  • Core outcome domains and measures for pediatric acute and chronic/recurrent pain clinical trials: PedIMMPACT recommendations

    Patrick J. McGrath;Gary A. Walco;Dennis C. Turk;Robert H. Dworkin

  • Treatment of chronic non-cancer pain

    Dennis C Turk;Hilary D Wilson;Alex Cahana

  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments for patients with chronic pain.

    Dennis C. Turk

  • The Role of Psychosocial Processes in the Development and Maintenance of Chronic Pain.

    Robert R. Edwards;Robert H. Dworkin;Mark D. Sullivan;Dennis C. Turk

  • Advances in neuropathic pain: Diagnosis, mechanisms, and treatment recommendations. Editorial

    Robert H. Dworkin;Miroslav Backonja;Michael C. Rowbotham;Robert R. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Dworkin
Robert H. Dworkin University of Rochester Medical Center
Michael P. McDermott
Michael P. McDermott University of Rochester
John T. Farrar
John T. Farrar University of Pennsylvania
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Srinivasa N. Raja
Srinivasa N. Raja Johns Hopkins University
John D. Loeser
John D. Loeser University of Washington
Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey Yale University
Mark P. Jensen
Mark P. Jensen University of Washington
Donald Meichenbaum
Donald Meichenbaum University of Waterloo

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