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. 2022 Sep 23;22(4):684-685.
doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2022-0101. Print 2022 Oct 26.

Assessing the societal cost of chronic pain

Christopher Sivert Nielsen  1   2
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Assessing the societal cost of chronic pain

Christopher Sivert Nielsen. Scand J Pain. .
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Keywords: chronic pain; economics; epidemiology.

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