Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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The aim of this study was to examine barriers and facilitators to multimodality chronic pain care among veterans on high-dose opioid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain. ⋯ Veterans with chronic pain on long-term opioids hold pervasive attitudes that prevent them from using multimodality pain management options, lack social support and social norms for non-opioid-based pain treatment options, and have poor perceived control due to poor access to multimodality care.
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To determine perioperative treatments and events associated with Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey responses. ⋯ These data suggest that demographic factors, preadmission medications, and PACU pain scores but not analgesic medications are associated with patient satisfaction with regards to both pain management and overall satisfaction.
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Phantom limb pain is a painful sensation perceived in the absent limb following surgical or traumatic amputation. Phantom limb sensations, which are nonpainful, occur in nearly all amputees. Deafferentation can also produce similar symptoms. Here we report the presence of phantom pain in a deafferented limb. ⋯ This is a report of phantom limb sensations and phantom pain following BPA in an intact but flaccid and insensate limb.
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Observational Study
Do male and female general practitioners differently prescribe chronic pain drugs to older patients?
The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between general practitioner (GP) gender and prescribing practice of chronic pain drugs in older adults. ⋯ Male and female GPs prescribe analgesics in a similar manner. However, male GPs prescribe more antineuropathic pain drugs, but fewer SySADOA.