Cost of pain medication to treat adult patients with nonmalignant chronic pain in the United States

Chemical Compounds

• Adjuvant 91%
• Nonsteroid Antiinflammatory Agent 68%
• Analgesic 66%
• Drug 54%
• Antirheumatic Agent 46%
• Myorelaxant Agent 45%
• Adrenal Cortex Hormone 38%
• Antalgic Agent 20%
• Antidepressant 18%
• Anticonvulsant 17%
• Serotonin 16%
• Dose 11%
• Red 10%
• Time 5%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Chronic Pain 94%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 64%
• Pain 60%
• Opioid Analgesics 29%
• Outpatients 24%
• Health Care Surveys 22%
• Prescriptions 18%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 15%
• Analgesics 14%
• Drug Costs 13%
• Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents 11%
• Adrenal Cortex Hormones 8%
• Anti-Inflammatory Agents 8%
• U.S. National Center for Health Statistics 7%
• Guidelines 7%
• Muscles 6%
• Population Characteristics 6%
• Tricyclic Antidepressive Agents 6%
• Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors 6%
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) 5%
• International Classification of Diseases 5%
• Pain Management 5%
• Ambulatory Care 5%
• Therapeutics 5%
• Health 5%
• Anticonvulsants 5%
• Antidepressive Agents 4%
• Appointments and Schedules 4%
• Primary Health Care 4%
• Population 4%
• Patient Care 4%
• Statistics 4%
• Software 4%
• Medicine 4%
• Public Health 3%
• Cross-Sectional Studies 3%
• Delivery of Health Care 3%

Social Sciences

• pain 100%
• medication 89%
• costs 58%
• drug 26%
• medical care 10%
• health plan 8%
• trend 7%
• decision maker 6%
• statistics 5%
• ambulatory care 4%
• health statistics 4%
• time series analysis 4%
• patient care 3%
• cross-sectional study 3%
• know how 3%
• dollar 3%
• academy 3%
• public health 2%
• medicine 2%
• health care 2%
• stakeholder 2%
• software 2%
• management 1%
• resources 1%
• evidence 1%