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Can a pain management programme approach reduce healthcare use? Stopping the revolving door

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Abstract:
Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain are frequent users of healthcare. Whilst evidence suggests that a multidisciplinary pain management programme (PMP) approach is effective in reducing patients’ levels of distress and disability, there is little research examining the cost-effectiveness of such an approach. The present study sought to address this by examining the impact a PMP had on patients’ pain-related secondary care healthcare use. A 90.5% reduction in healthcare use was found 12 months after the PMP, compared with 12 months before the PMP. The cost of the pain-related healthcare use 12 months before the PMP was £35,700. Twelve months after the PMP, the cost of healthcare use had reduced to £3879. The findings suggest that a PMP approach could reduce pain-related healthcare use.

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Judul Seri

Pain

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

: SAGE, British Journal of Pain., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

British Journal of Pain 7(3) 124– 129 © The British Pain Society 2013

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/2049463

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Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

(2013), 7(3)

Subjek

Pain

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

deliza

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