Collaborative Efforts May Improve Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Management in Asia: Findings from a Ten-Country Regional Survey
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Chi Wai Cheung1*, Chee Yong Choo2, Yong-Chul Kim3, Feng Sheng Lin4, Seong-Hwan Moon5, Evelyn Osio-Salido6, Sheng-Fa Pan7, Vivek Ajit Singh8, Seung-Hwan Yoon9, Lois Ward10, Hanlim Moon11 and Abhishek Bhagat11 1Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2Novena Pain Management Centre, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore 3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 4Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 5Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea 6Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines 7Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China 8University Malaya Medical Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 9Department of Neurosurgery, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Republic of Korea 10Mundipharma Research Ltd, Cambridge, UK 11Mundipharma Pte Ltd, Singapore
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