The use of healthcare services and disabling chronic pain: results from the cross-sectional population-based Andalusian Health Survey.
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 associate...
| Published in: | European Journal of Public Health Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 639 - 646 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Aug2024
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