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Acute Pain—normal, predicted, physiological response to adverse chemical, thermal, or mechanical stimulus.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Steven Y. Chinn MD

  2. Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Elizabeth Chuang MD, MPH

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10128, USA

    Karina Gritsenko MD

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  1. Steven Y. Chinn MD
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  2. Elizabeth Chuang MD, MPH
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Correspondence to Karina Gritsenko MD .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Chinn, S.Y., Chuang, E., Gritsenko, K. (2017). Epidemiology. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_8

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