Article
Identifying cases of chronic pain using health administrative data: A validation study
2019-12-18
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Chronic pain is a pervasive and challenging public health issue. Prevalence estimates vary widely, both globally (2-54%) and in Canada (6.5-44%). Most estimates are derived from surveys, which are expensive and labour intensive. Health administrative data is a potential easily-accessed, low-cost method to obtain epidemiological and cost estimates of chronic pain, but its val...
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- Literature Corpus work
- aaac3044-eefa-5397-8dd0-394d06079a7b
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.19115/v1
