Selecting Patients for Pain Treatment
| Autor: | Gunilla Brattberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Population Pain Models Biological Epidemiology medicine Humans Pain Management education Aged Pain Measurement Aged 80 and over Sweden education.field_of_study business.industry Moderate pain Middle Aged Surgery Postal survey Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Family medicine Chronic Disease Neurology (clinical) business Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | The Clinical Journal of Pain. 6:37-42 |
| ISSN: | 0749-8047 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00002508-199003000-00007 |
| Popis: | In a postal survey, 1,009 randomly chosen individuals, aged 18-84, were asked about their pain problems. The pain prevalence depended on the kind of questions and definitions used, but prevalence was high overall. In the present study, a model for selecting individuals in need of care was tested. Fifteen percent of individuals were defined as having considerable pain and 25% as having moderate pain. At least 12% of the population was calculated as having sufficient pain problems to need some kind of care. This high figure indicates that the establishment of special treatment facilities can never be sufficient to meet the total demand for care due to pain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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