Defining Chronic Pain

Defining Chronic Pain.

Defining chronic pain ethics.

OBJECTIVE To identify current issues in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. DESIGN Focus groups were convened to discuss the current issues in chronic pain care. Commentary was analyzed across focus groups using an interpretivist method of qualitative data analysis. Setting.  Focus groups were held in five major US cities throughout the United States. PARTICIPANTS Key stakeholders ...

Further defining and conceptualizing opioid misuse in chronic pain.

The recent review by Vowles et al. 5 on the rates of opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction in chronic pain is a sorely needed step in the right direction toward better defining and understanding the prevalence of opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction among individuals with chronic pain. The authors are to be applauded for both synthesizing and advocating for literature using explicit definitions of...

Defining and Assessing Animal Pain

The detection and assessment of pain in animals is crucial to improving their welfare in a variety of contexts in which humans are ethically or legally bound to do so. Thus clear standards to judge whether pain is likely to occur in any animal species is vital to inform whether to alleviate pain or to drive the refinement of procedures to reduce invasiveness, thereby minimizing pain. We define ...

Pain, chronic pain, and sickle cell chronic pain.

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