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. 2022 Apr;7(4):e295-e296.
doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00063-9.

Closing the global pain divide: balancing access and excess

Felicia Marie Knaul  1 , William E Rosa  2 , Héctor Arreola-Ornelas  3 , Renu Sara Nargund  4
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Closing the global pain divide: balancing access and excess

Felicia Marie Knaul et al. Lancet Public Health. 2022 Apr.
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Conflict of interest statement

FMK was the chair of the Lancet Commission on global access to palliative care and pain relief; is the founding President of Tómatelo A Pecho, a Mexican non-governmental organisation; is on the board of the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care; and reports grants and consulting fees from EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, outside the scope of the current work. HA-O reports research grants from EMD Serono, a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, outside the scope of the current work. WER and RSN declare no competing interests. WER acknowledges the US National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Center support grant P30 CA008748 and is supported by the NCI award number T32 CA009461. We thank Barbara M Sorondo and Vera Spika for guidance on the bibliometric search, and Valentina Vargas Enciso for excellent comments and suggestions.

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