Intensity of Chronic Pain — The Wrong Metric?

作者：Jane C. Ballantyne, Mark Daniel Sullivan · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1056/nejmp1507136 · 被引用次数：284 · 研究领域：Opioid Use Disorder Treatment、Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation、Pain Management and Opioid Use

Borrowing treatment principles from acute and end-of-life pain care, particularly a focus on pain intensity, has had harmful consequences for patients with chronic pain. Multimodal therapy, by contrast, aims to reduce pain-related distress, disability, and suffering.