Need for pediatric specifications for chronic pain diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

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aGerman Paediatric Pain Centre, Children's and Adolescents' Hospital, Datteln, Germany bDepartment of Children's Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany cDepartment of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, United Kingdom dDepartment of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States eSeattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States *Corresponding author. Address: Department of Children's Pain Therapy and Paediatric Palliative Care, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Dr.-Friedrich Steiner Str.5, 45711 Datteln, Germany. Tel.: +49-2363-975-180; fax: +49-2363-975-181. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Wager).