Pain clinic definitions in the medical literature and U.S. state laws: an integrative systematic review and comparison.
Barbara Andraka ChristouJoshua B RagerBrittany Brown-PodgorskiRoss D SilvermanDennis P WatsonPublished in: Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy (2018)
This is the first study to our knowledge to develop a taxonomy of pain clinic definitions and to identify differences between pain clinic definitions in U.S. state law and medical literature. Future work should explore the impact of different legal pain clinic definitions on provider decision-making and state-level health outcomes.