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Commentary on criterion measures in postprocedural pain trials

Joy C MacDermid¹, Jason W Busse

¹School of Rehabilitation Science, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, 1400 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 1C7, Canada Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre, London, ON, Canada Department of Anesthesia, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

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