Abstract
Epidemiologic studies of pain are often dependent on subjective survey- or questionnaire-based data. Many well-validated methods to assess pain and associated symptoms exist, but they are not validated for all populations. Some subjective differences reflect biology, such as in gender differences in pain.
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Hess, A.S., Abd-Elsayed, A. (2019). Use of Data from Epidemiologic Studies of Pain. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_29
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