Highlights
- •This study comprehensively captures costs associated with pediatric chronic pain.
- •Mean per capita costs were $11,797, extrapolated to $19.5 billion for all adolescents in the United States.
- •Costs were concentrated in a small group of participants.
- •The cost of childhood chronic pain presents a substantial economic burden to society.
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This project was partially supported by National Institutes of Health R01HD065180 (T.M.P.), and the first author (C.B.G.) was supported by National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant T32GM086270 (T.M.P.).
The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
