Table 1.
Top reported pain terms in P1
| Pain Term | Category | Pain Specific | Frequency | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pain | Disorder | Yes | 627 644 | 247 312 |
| Anaesthesia | Pain type | Yes | 190 376 | 115 614 |
| Analgesic | Drug class | Yes | 112 703 | 61 223 |
| Headache | Disorder | Yes | 118 956 | 50 249 |
| Brain haemorrhage | Disorder | No | 85 702 | 45 214 |
| Opioid | Drug class | Yes | 77 921 | 33 486 |
| Morphine | Drug | Yes | 119 985 | 33 337 |
| Analgesia | Pain type | Yes | 64 777 | 31 982 |
| Palliative | Treatment | Yes | 51 401 | 27 536 |
| Abdominal pains | Pain type | Yes | 33 916 | 25 062 |
‘Pain term’ refers to the individual pain term and all its synonyms. Pain terms are pain specific (yes) or pain relevant (no). Pain term ‘categories’ are defined in supplementary file 1. ‘Frequency’ refers to the total number of times that that term was mentioned. ‘Documents’ refers to the number of documents that that term was mentioned in.