Interdisciplinary Treatment for Chronic Pain: Is It Worth the Money?
| Autor: | Timothy S. Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Biopsychosocial model
Interdisciplinary treatment medicine.medical_specialty Medical treatment business.industry Clinical effectiveness Chronic pain Articles General Medicine 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Multidisciplinary approach medicine Research studies Physical therapy 030212 general & internal medicine business Complex problems |
| Zdroj: | Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. 13:240-243 |
| ISSN: | 1525-3252 0899-8280 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08998280.2000.11927682 |
| Popis: | Complex problems require complex solutions. As we have seen, chronic pain syndromes are complex biopsychosocial phenomena that develop over time. Conventional medical strategies designed for acute pain are often unhelpful and costly if patients have developed more chronic pain problems. Research studies have suggested that an interdisciplinary team is more effective than either serial multidisciplinary treatments or fragmented approaches toward care. Fortunately, the cost of interdisciplinary care is relatively low. Okifuji et al noted that interdisciplinary pain centers “have been more rigorously examined than most other treatment modalities used with chronic pain patients. More data are available for the efficacy of … [these centers] … than for any surgical procedures or conventional medical treatment for chronic pain” (3). Although time consuming and costly, treatments received at interdisciplinary pain centers “result in greater clinical effectiveness and cost savings than the alternatives” (3). |
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