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Much of what is thought to be known about chronic pain in the pediatric population has historically been extrapolated from the literature and experience in adults. Before the last several decades of the twentieth century, little research focused on pain and its management in children, and very little scientific effort addressed issues related to pediatric chronic pain. Even now, few studies describe the demographics of chronic pain in children. Investigations to date addressing incidence and prevalence, gender differences, age-dependent onset, regional findings, and other associations with chronic pain in the pediatric population exist largely in the literature of anesthesiology and various mental health disciplines, and are primarily observational in nature. Current science relating to the demographics of chronic pain in children is incomplete: a paucity of sound data continues, and much remains to be learned. (Howard 2003) |
