Pre-Outpatient Group Education and Assessment in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.

@article{Mullins2021PreOutpatientGE,
  title={Pre-Outpatient Group Education and Assessment in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.},
  author={Cormac Francis Mullins and Braydon Bak and David Moore},
  journal={Pain medicine},
  year={2021},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232429547}
}
Group interventions before individual appointments have the potential to provide important improvements in service delivery, including improvements in waiting times and cost per patient, but benefits for patient outcome measures are less clear.
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