title: New Utah program helps curb runaway costs associated with chronic pain.
abstract: Take steps to address chronic pain now. Why? Because it's costing the United States 120 billion dollars per year, and much of this expense is due to patients bouncing from clinician to clinician without ever finding relief. Some healthcare organizations and individual practitioners successfully address the problem by taking a multidisciplinary approach to care and equipping patients with strategies to help them take charge.
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003363:Cost Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D019468:Disease Management; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics*; D010358:Patient Participation; D014589:Utah