The use of healthcare services and disabling chronic pain: results from the cross-sectional population-based Andalusian Health Survey
Rocío Cáceres-Matos,
Eugenia Gil-García,
Soledad Vázquez-Santiago
et al.
Abstract:Background
Several factors seem to be related to the use of healthcare services, and chronic pain (CP) is among these characteristics. The objective is to describe the number of visits to a doctor’s surgery or emergency rooms, and the periods of hospitalization; to identify characteristics associated with frequent healthcare use, including disabling chronic pain (DCP) and non-disabling chronic pain (n-DCP).
Methods
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