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High-impact Chronic Pain in a Cohort of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Patients: A Retrospective MAPP Research Network Study.
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Wang T, Bergmans R, Minc A, Krieger J, Harris RE, Lai HH, Clemens JQ, Harte SE, Kaplan C, Williams DA, Naliboff B, Gallop R, Till S, Schrepf AAbstract
An emerging concept in the chronic pain literature, high-impact chronic pain (HICP), refers to pain that occurs very frequently and results in major disruption of daily life. Previous epidemiologic investigations have noted that lower educational attainment, age, and race appear to be associated with the frequency of HICP, but condition-specific investigations of HICP have been less common.