National Pain Strategy (NPS) population research objectives include: estimating chronic pain prevalence; studying pain treatment with electronic health care data; and, developing metrics to assess progress in reducing chronic pain impact. In this paper, the NPS Population Research Workgroup reviews concepts relevant to achieving these aims. High impact chronic pain was defined as persistent pain with substantial restriction of life activities lasting six months or more. In pilot work, we tested a brief assessment of high impact chronic pain, and employed electronic health records data to describe pain-related health care.
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