A prospective study to compare serial changes in pain scores for patients with and without a history of frequent ED utilization

Background: In the face of the opiate addiction epidemic, there is a paucity of research that evaluates limitations for our current pain rating methodologies for patient populations at risk for drug seeking behavior. Objective: We hypothesized that VAS scores would be higher and show less serial imp...

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Main Authors: Ryan Joseph, Alainya Tomanec, Thomas McLaughlin, Jose Guardiola, Peter Richman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021013190