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Race and Ethnicity Do Not Clinically Associate with Quality of Life Among Patients with Chronic Severe Pain in a Federally Qualified Health Center
Author(s) -
Lara Dhingra,
Róbert Schiller,
Raymond Teets,
Sarah Nosal,
Sandra Rodríguez,
Gabriel Cruciani,
Malcolm Barrett,
Regina Ginzburg,
Ebtesam Ahmed,
Thomas Wasser,
Jack Chen,
Saskia Shuman,
Casey Crump,
Russell K. Portenoy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnx040
Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , chronic pain , quality of life (healthcare) , anxiety , mental health , non hispanic whites , african american , gerontology , race (biology) , physical therapy , psychiatry , ethnology , nursing , sociology , anthropology , mexican americans , history , botany , biology
Previous research suggests that race/ethnicity predicts health-related quality of life (HRQL) in chronic pain populations but has not examined this in community settings. This study evaluated this association in 522 community-dwelling patients with chronic pain treated at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

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