title: [The path to pain management on WHO. Step III. Towards a better understanding of the treatment of severe chronic pain].
abstract: Many patients with severe chronic pain continue to receive inadequate treatment. The reason is often a lack of proper communication between patient and physician. In order to ensure adequate pain therapy, it is essential to gain the patient's cooperation and also to involve the patient's relatives. Following comprehensive history-taking and a physical examination, the treatment is established individually on the basis of a stepped approach. The stepped schema advocated by the WHO is applied both to tumor-related and to non-tumor-related pain.
authors.affiliation: Arzt für Allgemeinmedizin, Psychotherapie, Diabetologe DDG, Schwalmtal.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sohn
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009020:Morphine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology; D010146:Pain / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D028701:Patient Rights; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D009020:Morphine