ArticlePloS one2023
The burden of Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP): Costs and quality of life of women and men with CPP treated in outpatient referral centers.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Women's Causal Beliefs About Their Pelvic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2026Pooled it
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- Light at the end of the tunnel: design, implementation and outcomes of a pelvic pain management programme.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2025Article
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- The Impact of Gynecological Pathologies on Patients' Quality of Life from Menarche to Menopause-Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Resilience among adults with chronic urologic pelvic pain syndrome: A flexible self-regulation perspective.The journal of pain · 2025Article
- Interventional Radiology Treatments to Address Chronic Pelvic Pain in Females.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2025Review
- FIGO-IPPS consensus statement: Addressing the global unmet needs of women with chronic pelvic pain.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Article
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Technology-Enhanced Community Health Nursing Program for Adolescent Girls and Young Adult Women With Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.Sexually transmitted diseases · 2025Article
- Chronic pelvic pain and botulinum toxin.Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2025Review
- Trajectories of mHealth-Tracked Mental Health and Their Predictors in Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Disorders.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pelvic Pain: What Is It and Does It Work?The Journal of urology · 2024Review
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in chronic pain research: A decade of bibliometric analysis and network visualization.AIMS neuroscience · 2024Review
- Classifying chronic pain using ICD-11 and questionnaires-reported characteristics in Japanese patients with chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A comprehensive treatment algorithm for chronic pelvic pain patients: A perspective review and future guidelines.Women's health (London, England)Review
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Abstract
introductionChronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) is a complex, multifaceted condition that affects both women and men. There is limited literature on the cost utilization the healthcare system and CPP patients incur. The purpose of this analysis is to characterize the overall healthcare utilization, cost burden, and quality-of-life restrictions experienced by CPP patients using data from an outpatient pelvic rehabilitation practice.
methodsHealthcare utilization data was gathered by systematically reviewing and analyzing data from new patient visit progress notes stored in the clinic's electronic health records (EHR). We obtained in-network costs by using the FAIR Health Consumer online database. Overall costs were then calculated as the utilization times the per-unit costs from the FAIR database. Additionally, data on patients' visual analogue scale (VAS), absenteeism, presenteeism emergency room visits, usage of common pain medications, use of diagnostics, and participation in common treatment modalities was gathered.
resultsData from 607 patients was used. The overall cost burden per patient for all surgeries combined was $15,750 for in-network services. The cost burden for diagnostics was $5,264.22 and treatments was $8,937 per patient for in-network treatments.
conclusionChronic Pelvic Pain was found to have a large cost burden of $29,951 for in-network services which includes treatments, diagnostics, and surgeries. This analysis sets the stage for future investigations involving data on costs of medications that patients have tried prior to presenting to us and costs associated with work hours lost.
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