Acknowledgements
The advice from the following people is gratefully acknowledged
Professor Troels Staehelin Jensen, MD PhD DMSc
Danish Pain Research Center and Dept. of Neurology
Lone Nikolajsen, MD PhD DMSc
Danish Pain Research Center and Dept. of Anesthesiology
Bente Morre Christensen, RN
Danish Pain Research Center
Ioanna Milidou, MD PhD MSc
Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit
Søren Paaske Johnsen, MD PhD
Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology - Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Thomas Peter Enggaard, MD PhD
Dept. of Anesthesiology - Odense University Hospital, Denmark
Kari Mikael Sulkko, MD
Dept. of Neurosurgery - Seinäjoki Central Hospital, Finland
Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD
Clinique Cecil Lausanne, Switzerland
Mikkel Petersen, MD
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Matthias Winkelmüller, MD
NeurochirurgischeKlinik Hannover, Germany
Anne Lene Høst Knudsen, RN
Dept. of Neurosurgery - Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Christophe Perruchoud, MD
Ensemble Hospitalier de la Côte (EHC), Switzerland
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