TY - BOOK ID - 136682892 TI - Chronic Pain Among Service Members: Using Administrative Data to Strengthen Research and Quality Improvement AU - Sherry, Tisamarie B. AU - Bhandarkar, Mallika AU - Hepner, Kimberly A. AU - Roth, Carol P. PY - 2021 PB - Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136682892 AB - Chronic pain affects between 31 and 44 percent of active-duty service members and is a leading cause of disability and reduced readiness. Providing high-quality chronic pain care to U.S. military personnel and supporting research to guide chronic pain care quality improvement efforts are priorities for the Military Health System (MHS). MHS administrative data, which capture service members' health care utilization, are an important resource and are already being used to support research and quality improvement initiatives. There are, however, considerable challenges to using these data to accurately measure the prevalence of chronic pain and the quality of chronic pain care provided to service members. RAND researchers explored how MHS administrative data can be used to assess the prevalence and treatment of chronic pain, and to track improvements in chronic pain care for individual service members and medical readiness across the force. ER -