Erschienen in:
01.05.2018 | Concise Research Reports
Treat the Patient, Not the Pain: Using a Multidimensional Assessment Tool to Facilitate Patient-Centered Chronic Pain Care
verfasst von:
Dale J. Langford, PhD, David J. Tauben, MD, FACP, John A. Sturgeon, PhD, Daniel S. Godfrey, Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD, Ardith Z. Doorenbos, RN, PhD, FAAN
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2018
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Excerpt
Chronic pain is common, complex, costly, and distressing to patients, families, and clinicians. Despite multiple national initiatives,
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2 improvements in chronic pain management have been limited. In fact, an estimated 40–60% of patients with chronic pain have inadequate pain management.
3 This lack of progress may partly be due to the multidimensionality of chronic pain, which is not routinely incorporated into its assessment and management. A patient-centered approach—that accounts for patient-specific goals and patient-reported outcomes and can be implemented in a congested, time-limited primary care clinic setting—is needed to achieve the primary goals of chronic pain management, including reduction of pain impact and improvement of function and quality of life.
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