Pain Management and Treatment: Primary Healthcare's Role
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| ID: sea-218771
ABSTRACT
Pain is invariably present in most of the primary care medical requests. The general practitioner plays a key role in its adequate diagnosis and managing. Chronic pain is especially common between the elderly, who require a careful pharmacological prescription. Non-pharmacological therapies have few adverse effects and can be used alone or in combination with pharmacological therapies. Since effective pain control is a duty of health professionals and a human right for patients, it is of the utmost importance that we make this institutional investment in order to make this a reality.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
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2022
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