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Article: Clinical research as a foundation for Veterans Health Administration Pain Management Strategy
- Article from:
- Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Early this year, the Editor of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) put out a call for "Pain Management" papers to be published in a special thematic issue in November 2003 [1]. Specifically, she wrote "The management of pain is a continuing public health problem. Pain of all descriptions is one of the most frequently encountered complaints in physicians' offices, hospitals, chronic care facilities, and nursing homes. Virtually all health care professionals encounter patients with pain, whether it is acute or chronic; is due to trauma, surgery, arthritis, cancer, or other illnesses; or occurs as part of daily life or at the end of life." Researchers involved with the VHA have ...