Healthcare professionals’ experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration in pain centres – A qualitative study

Abstract

The complexity of chronic pain requires interdisciplinary collaboration. Although this is recognisable in the framework for pain centres, few studies have investigated how interdisciplinary collaboration in pain centres is experienced by healthcare professionals, including the facilitators and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. The aim of the current study was therefore to investigate experiences of interdisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of patients with chronic pain among healthcare professionals in tertiary care pain centres.

Keywords

• chronic pain
• interdisciplinary collaboration
• pain centre
• experiences
• healthcare professionals
• qualitative