BACKGROUND This article examines the association between smoking and pain intensity and functional interference in a heterogeneous group of patients evaluated at a tertiary outpatient pain clinic. Current smoking is associated with less favorable clinical presentations. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to determine if the smoking status of patients seen in an outpatient pain clinic is assoc...

Friday 4 O’ Clock in the Pain Clinic Friday at 4 p.m. our pain clinic phone rang; it was the daughter of one of my patients, crying and telling me that her mother had died following a grueling course of treatment only a year before for widely metastatic breast cancer. The daughter had called me to share the news, saying she was truly grateful for all of the care I had given during her mother’s ...

Background Interventional Pain Management (IPM) is performed in multidisciplinary chronic pain clinics (MCPC), including a range of invasive techniques to diagnose and treat chronic pain (CP) conditions. Current patterns of use of those techniques in MCPC have not yet been reported. Objective We aimed to describe quantitatively and qualitatively the use of IPM and other therapeutic procedures...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to investigate pain cognitions and quality of life of chronic pain patients referred to a multi-disciplinary university pain management clinic and to search for predictors of quality of life. METHODS A heterogeneous group of 1208 chronic pain patients referred to the Maastricht university hospital pain clinic participated in this cross-sectional st...

OBJECTIVE To examine the profile and referral pattern of patients attending an out-patient pain management service in Hong Kong. DESIGN Prospective cross-sectional survey. SETTING Regional public hospitals, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All patients attending out-patient pain management clinics in the New Territories East public hospitals between 1 September and 31 December 2002. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...

PURPOSE This study aims to investigate the degree of subjective pain and the satisfaction of patients who have undergone an implant treatment using a computer-guided template. MATERIALS AND METHODS A survey was conducted for 135 patients who have undergone implant surgery with and without the use of the computer-guided template during the period of 2012 and 2013 in university hospitals, denta...