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The Epidemiology of Inadequate Control of Acute Pain

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Acute pain is one of the most common presenting complaints in the United States. Despite numerous initiatives in the past 2 decades designed to better assess and treat acute pain, there has been little or no progress in improvement of pain outcomes.

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    The MEPS (https://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/) is a database compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Not all data sources are open to the public but may obtained through special request.

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  1. University of Wisconsin Hospitals & Clinics, Madison, WI, USA

    Kimberley J. Williamson

  2. University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Mark L. Stram

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, UW Health at the American Center, Madison, WI, USA

    Mark L. Stram

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Williamson, K.J., Stram, M.L. (2019). The Epidemiology of Inadequate Control of Acute Pain. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_214

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