Pain Medicine in Crisis-A Possible Model toward a Solution: Empowering Community Medicine to Treat Chronic Pain.

ABSTRACT: Pain medicine in Israel and in the world has reached a crisis. The lack of available pain medicine services is resulting in the unsatisfactory treatment for chronic pain sufferers. The main causes of this crisis are: 1) the high prevalence of chronic pain, reaching levels of 17% in the adult population;2) the lack of appropriate training of primary care physicians in the field of chronic pain management; and 3) the paucity of consultation services in the field of chronic pain. In this journal article, we propose a possible model for the solution of the problem, based upon levels of treatment according to the severity of the disease and upon training of primary and secondary care physicians in the treatment of pain. According to the model, the vast majority of treatment and management will

SUBMITTER: Minerbi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3820300 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature