Analysis
pain
Analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows version 25.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL) and Stata version 16.0 (StataCorp. 2019. Stata Statistical Software: Release 16. College Station, TX: StataCorp LLC) on available data. Descriptive summary statistics were estimated for clinico-demographic variables, NRS pain and HrQOL scores, QLU-C10D utilities and healthcare resource use and costs.Medical and allied health services were categorised consistent with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (See Table 1 in Healthcare costs were positively skewed. Consequently, Differences between clinico-demographic sub-groups were assessed using the non-parametric Mann Whitney The relationships between clinico-demographic variables and healthcare resource utilisation were further explored using a generalised linear model (GLM) with a gamma distribution and a log link [