Patient action: as means and end for chronic pain care

aDepartments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA bDepartment of Psychology and Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA *Corresponding author. Address: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Box 356560, Seattle, WA 98195-6560, USA. Tel.: 206-685-3184, fax: 206-543-9520. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.D. Sullivan). Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text and are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal's Web site (www.painjournalonline.com).