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. 2021 Jul;21(6):731-732.
doi: 10.1111/papr.13015. Epub 2021 Apr 30.

A survey of chronic pain telephone consultations during COVID-19 at an inner-city secondary care center

Richard J Berwick  1   2 , Katie Herron  3 , Hoo Kee Tsang  3
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A survey of chronic pain telephone consultations during COVID-19 at an inner-city secondary care center

Richard J Berwick et al. Pain Pract. 2021 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; chronic pain; pain services; telehealth; telephone clinic.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Satisfaction patients scored their agreement with the following statements with on a 5‐point Likert scale from 1 (least) to 5 (most). Direct comparisons of the questions for face‐to‐face versus telephone consultations show significance for “Appointment satisfaction,” “Helping you understand your condition,” “Feeling understood,” “Feeling listened to,” and “Advice for self‐help.” * Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05 using Wilcoxon rank sum statistics for medians.
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