Hospice News July 1, 2024
Collaborations between palliative care specialists and pain medicine physicians can help optimize care for seriously ill patients, new research has found.
Chronic pain can be debilitating and often accompanies serious conditions that can warrant palliative care, such as cancer. Between 2019 and 2021, the prevalence of chronic pain among adults nationwide ranged from 20.5% to 21.8%, and the prevalence of high-impact chronic pain ranged from 6.9% to 7.8%, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The new study appeared in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
“Although we found that [palliative care] physicians have highly positive attitudes about the value of [pain medicine] specialists, referral rates remain low, even for [implantable drug delivery system] implantation,...
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