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MARCH 10, 2017

Stanford Registry Collecting Pain Data to Gauge Effectiveness of Treatment

Since its inception at the Pain Management Center at Stanford Health Care in 2012, the Collaborative Health Outcomes Information Registry (CHOIR) system has made great strides in allowing physicians to collect qualitative information on their pain patients.

“CHOIR allows us to answer the most basic question: Are we getting our patients better?” said Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, the creator of CHOIR and past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. “We can answer that with