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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 5-13Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-008-0096-3
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Chronic pain; Costs; Work productivity; Activity impairment
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This study explores the costs of non-malignant chronic pain in patients awaiting treatment in a multidisciplinary pain clinic in a hospital setting. Health care costs due to chronic pain are particular high during the first year after pain onset, and remain high compared with health care costs before pain onset. The majority of chronic pain patients incur the costs of alternative treatments. Chronic pain causes production losses at work, as well as impairment of non-work activities.
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