A call to action to integrate best practice assessment of sexual orientation and gender identity in pain research and clinical care

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
• ² Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ³ BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁴ Center for Biobehavioral Health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Abigal Wexner Research Institute, Columbus, OH, United States.
• ⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
• ⁶ Division of Pediatric Psychology, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT, United States.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, United States.
• ⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, United States.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States.
• ¹⁰ Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.