Do Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Accept Treatment of Questionable Benefit More Readily that those Who Are Pain Free?

Mark K Simmonds; Saifee Rashiq; Philip Klemka; Alexander S Sclanachan

doi:10.1155/2004/926983

Pain Research and Management (Jan 2004)

Do Patients with Chronic Noncancer Pain Accept Treatment of Questionable Benefit More Readily that those Who Are Pain Free?

Mark K Simmonds,
Saifee Rashiq,
Philip Klemka,
Alexander S Sclanachan

Affiliations

Mark K Simmonds: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Walter Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, University of Alberta, Canada
Saifee Rashiq: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Walter Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, University of Alberta, Canada
Philip Klemka: The Grey Nuns Family Medicine Centre, Grey Nuns Hospital, Cedars Professional Park, Canada
Alexander S Sclanachan: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/926983
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 81 – 85

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The efficacy of some common, questionable chronic pain interventions has been debated and it is unclear why sufferers of chronic noncancer pain agree to receive them. This study attempts to determine if chronic pain sufferers characteristically more readily accept treatment with questionable benefit.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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