Economic burden of chronic pain in Alberta, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although chronic pain (CP) is common, little is known about its economic burden in Alberta, Canada.

Aims

To estimate incremental (as compared to the general population or people without CP) societal (healthcare and lost productivity) costs of CP in Alberta.

Methods

We applied the prevalence estimated from the Canadian Community Health Survey data to the population retrieved from the Statistics Canada to estimate the number of people with CP in Alberta in 2019. We analyzed the Alberta Health administrative databases to estimate the healthcare costs of person with CP. Finally, we multiplied the number of people with the cost per person.

Results

The prevalence of any CP was 20.1% and of activity-preventing CP was 14.5% among people aged > = 12 years. In

SUBMITTER: Thanh NX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9374207 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature