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Chronic pain: prevalence, demographic inequalities, and healthcare utilisation. A primary care database analysis

Siddesh Shetty, James Scuffell, Dianne Aitken and Mark Ashworth
BJGP Open 2025; 9 (3): BJGPO.2024.0147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0147
Siddesh Shetty
1 School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
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vol. 9 no. 3 BJGPO.2024.0147
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0147
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40015745

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  • Received June 17, 2024
  • Revision received October 9, 2024
  • Accepted November 25, 2024
  • Published online October 27, 2025.

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  1. Siddesh Shetty1,
  2. James Scuffell1,*,
  3. Dianne Aitken2 and
  4. Mark Ashworth1
  1. 1 School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK
  2. 2 Lambeth Together Care Partnership Board, NHS Lambeth Together, London, UK
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    jamie.scuffell{at}kcl.ac.uk
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Siddesh Shetty, James Scuffell, Dianne Aitken, Mark Ashworth
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