Mental Health Diagnoses are Not Associated With Indicators of Lower Quality Pain Care in Electronic Health Records of a National Sample of Veterans Treated in Veterans Health Administration Primary Care Settings

• Published in: The journal of pain Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 273 - 281
• Main Authors: Dobscha, Steven K., Luther, Stephen L., Kerns, Robert D., Finch, Dezon K., Goulet, Joseph L., Brandt, Cynthia A., Skanderson, Melissa, Bathulapalli, Harini, Fodeh, Samah J., Hahm, Bridget, Bouayad, Lina, Lee, Allison, Han, Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2023
• Subjects: Chronic Pain - epidemiology; Electronic Health Records; Humans; Mental Health; Musculoskeletal pain; Pain care; Primary Health Care; Quality of Health Care; Retrospective Studies; United States - epidemiology; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; Veterans - psychology; Veterans Health; Veterans Health Administration (VHA); United States; Musculoskeletal pain; Pain care; Veterans Health Administration (VHA); Mental health

•Diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder were associated with higher pain quality (PCQ) scores.•Other common mental health diagnosis categories were not associated with PCQ scores.•Married Veterans and Veterans with higher baseline pain levels had higher PCQ scores.•Hispanic ethnicity and cancer...