Articles: pain-clinics.
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Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim · Jun 2006
[Pediatric acute postoperative pain management service: 6 years' experience].
[corrected] To describe the introduction and activities of a low-cost acute postoperative pain management service for children. ⋯ The pain management service in our hospital was able to control postoperative pain safely and effectively.
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Z Orthop Ihre Grenzgeb · May 2006
Controlled Clinical Trial[Multidisciplinary orthopedic rehabilitation program in patients with chronic back pain and need for changing job situation -- long-term effects of a multimodal, multidisciplinary program with activation and job development].
According to a recent review by Hüppe and Raspe effects of multidisciplinary treatment programs for patients with chronic low back pain in Germany seem to be rather weak and not to have persisting effects. Factors which could counteract possible benefits of treatment are, among others, psychic and job-related stresses and strains persisting after treatment. A multidisciplinary, in-patient treatment program for patients with chronic low back pain, therefore, was amended by multidisciplinary diagnosis and assignment and measures to support vocational solutions. ⋯ We attribute these persisting and superior effects in the treatment group to an efficient treatment of occupational and psychic problems as well as to more homogeneous treatment groups attained by a multidisciplinary diagnosis and team-based assignment. They also show the significance of in-patient-treatment which is effective, when -- based on multidisciplinary diagnosis -- differential treatment groups can be formed.
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Comparative Study
Rapid-access chest pain clinics and the traditional cardiology out-patient clinic.
The National Service Framework for coronary heart disease recommends rapid-access chest pain clinics (RACPCs) for cardiological assessment of new-onset chest pain within 2 weeks of referral. ⋯ The RACPC has provided efficient and effective substitution for the OPCC in the assessment of new chest pain referrals according to pre-defined referral criteria. Broadening the referral criterion of the RACPC to patients with chest pain of >4 weeks duration would result in more referrals.
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To examine the profile and treatment pattern of patients with neuropathic pain attending Siriraj Pain Clinic. ⋯ Characteristics and treatment patterns of neuropathic pain at Siriraj Pain Clinic are similar to those seen in other pain clinics elsewhere in the world. The high prevalence of neuropathic pain in the clinic indicates that this type of pain syndrome is increasingly critical to our clinical practice. More educational programs on neuropathic pain and management are needed for Thai healthcare professionals.