[Multimodal pain therapy. Current situation].
A multidisciplinary approach for the management of patients with chronic pain is now well-established in many countries, especially in situations involving a complex disease process in the sense of a biopsychosocial model. Both the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of multidisciplinary pain treatment programs and their superiority compared to unimodal therapy has been documented in a number of studies, reviews and meta-analyses, in particular for patients suffering from chronic low back pain. Nevertheless, there are still major shortcomings concerning the definition of multimodal and multidisciplinary treatment and the quality of structures and processes, compared for example to the standards defined by the German Pain Society (Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft). Furthermore, there is still no consensus on specific therapeutic approaches, the differentiation between responders and non-responders as well as on the tools required for measurement. All these questions will have to be answered by concerted efforts in a multicenter setting.
UniversitätsSchmerzCentrum, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Deutschland.
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UniversitätsSchmerzCentrum, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Deutschland. rainer.sabatowski@uniklinikum-dresden.de.|Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie und Intensivtherapie, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Deutschland. rainer.sabatowski@uniklinikum-dresden.de.
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Klinik für Anaesthesiologie, Interdisziplinäre Schmerzambulanz und Tagesklinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Deutschland.
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D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D000070516:Intersectoral Collaboration; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical
Chronic pain; Guidelines; Meta analysis; Multimodal pain therapy; Quality of structures and processes