Mapping care pathways and estimating the number and cost of musculoskeletal chronic pain patients to inform the development and implementation of a new service

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 241-247

  Carnes, Dawn ^a   Gallagher, Jayne ^b   Herne, Sally ^c   Munday, Elaine ^c   Ritchie, Sara ^c   Underwood, Martin ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Mile End Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chronic pain; cost; service improvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011485054     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423608000893     Document Type: Article

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