Meeting high-risk patient pain care needs through intensive primary care: a secondary analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Chronic pain disproportionately affects medically and psychosocially complex patients, many of whom are at high risk of hospitalisation. Pain prevalence among high-risk patients, however, is unknown, and pain is seldom a focus for improving high-risk patient outcomes. Our objective is to (1) evaluate pain frequency in a high-risk patient population and (2) identify intensive management (IM) programme features that patients and providers perceive as important for promoting patient-centred pain care within primary care (PC)-based IM.

Design

Secondary observational analysis of quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from a multisite randomised PC-based IM programme for high-risk patients.

Setting

Five integrated local Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare syste

SUBMITTER: Giannitrapani KF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773401 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature