Tumin D, et al. - Researchers sought to retrospectively characterize the rate of referrals to an outpatient chronic pain clinic among adolescents with chronic pain. Further, they investigated the factors associated with referral. they included adolescents, 13 to 18 years of age seen in 2010 to 2015 at outpatient clinics associated with Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) and diagnosed with chronic pain if they lived near NCH and had not been previously referred to the NCH outpatient chronic pain clinic. They noted that adolescents with generalized chronic pain, regional pain syndromes, and patients with mental health comorbidities were more frequently referred to their chronic pain clinic. Pain clinic referral was observed in correlation with recent hospitalization or surgery, but not recent Emergency Department visits. No disparities in referral by race or socioeconomic status were noted.