Clinical practice guidelines for the care of people experiencing chronic primary pain: protocol for a systematic review with interpretation against an established chronic pain care priority framework.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Most clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for assessing and managing people's chronic pain focus on specific pain conditions, body sites or life course stages. This creates complexity for clinicians making care choices in the absence of a diagnosis and/or where a person experiences more than one pain condition. Specific to this context is the ICD-11 classification of chronic primary pain where an experience of pain cannot be better accounted for by another condition. CPGs for chronic primary pain, agnostic to condition or body part, may support clinicians towards best pain care since many of the principles of person-centred chronic pain care are transdiagnostic. The two aims of this systematic review are to (1) identify and appraise CPGs for chronic primary pain,

SUBMITTER: Briggs AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12458848 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature