Patient-Reported Chronic Pain Intensity: More Than Meets the Eye

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA. dale_langford@urmc.rochester.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA. dale_langford@urmc.rochester.edu.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.
⁴ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Health Measurement, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Hertz and Fields Consulting, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
⁷ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁸ Chronic Pain Research Alliance, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Dale J Langford et al. Patient. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;15(4):383-387.

doi: 10.1007/s40271-022-00585-9. Epub 2022 Jun 9.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA. dale_langford@urmc.rochester.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA. dale_langford@urmc.rochester.edu.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.
⁴ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health Sciences, Center for Health Measurement, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Hertz and Fields Consulting, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
⁷ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁸ Chronic Pain Research Alliance, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
⁹ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

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