[Chronic pain--a chronic headache for health services?].
Chronic, non-malignant pain is becoming a problem of increasing dimension in our national health system. Chronic pain is essentially different from acute pain. Therefore, it must also be treated by different means and from a different therapeutical angle. Doctors and other therapists often meet the patient with chronic pain with mild rejection and other defensive reactions. This is not only unprofessional but also unjust towards the patient. Further more it helps to turn these patients into excessive consumers of health services. This article proposes two distinct measures that can both humanize the treatment of chronic pain, and make it more economic: Training/re-education of doctors and therapists in the treatment of chronic pain. Ambulatory group treatment for patients with a cognitive/behavioural profile.
Hintringer
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Aust-Agder Sentralsjukehus, Arendal.
D000698:Analgesia / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010146:Pain / Q000453:epidemiology; D059408:Pain Management
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