The journal Pain recently featured a report by a group of authors in Sweden who sought to “quantify the societal cost of chronic pain in people 65 years old and older to assess the impact of chronic pain on quality of life.” The authors collected data from three registers and sent a postal questionnaire to a stratified sample in southeastern Sweden. The authors found an association between “resource use and severity of chronic pain in elderly subjects: the more severe the chronic pain, the more extensive (and expensive) the use of resources.”
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