Assessment of decision-making autonomy in chronic pain patients: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient decision-making autonomy refers to the patients' ability to freely exert their own choices and make their own decisions, given sufficient resources and information to do so. In pain medicine, it is accepted that appropriate beneficial management aims to propose an individualized treatment plan shared with the patients, as agents, to help them live as autonomously as possible with their pain. However, are patients in chronic pain centers sufficiently autonomous to participate in the therapeutic decisions that concern them? As this question still remains unanswered, a pilot study was set up to that aim.

Methods

Over a 2-month period, first-time patients within a tertiary multidisciplinary pain center underwent a systematic evaluation of their autonomy using

SUBMITTER: d'Ussel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409763 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature