The use of healthcare services and disabling chronic pain: results from the cross-sectional population-based Andalusian Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several factors seem to be related to the use of healthcare services, and chronic pain (CP) is among these characteristics. The objective is to describe the number of visits to a doctor's surgery or emergency rooms, and the periods of hospitalization; to identify characteristics associated with frequent healthcare use, including disabling chronic pain (DCP) and non-disabling chronic pain (n-DCP).

Methods

Representative population-based cross-sectional study of 6569 people older than 16 years from southern Spain was collected. The frequency of visits to a doctor's surgery or emergency rooms and periods of hospitalization were defined as at or above the 90th percentile. Binary logistic regression analyses were conducted separately on women and men to identify charac

SUBMITTER: Caceres-Matos R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11293836 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature