Pain Medicine in Crisis—A Possible Model toward a Solution: Empowering Community Medicine to Treat Chronic Pain

Pain medicine in Israel and in the world has reached a crisis. The lack of available pain medicine services is resulting in the unsatisfactory treatment for chronic pain sufferers. The main causes of this crisis are: 1) the high prevalence of chronic pain, reaching levels of 17% in the adult populat...

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Main Authors: Amir Minerbi, Simon Vulfsons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rambam Health Care Campus 2013-10-01
Series:Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://rmmj.org.il/Pages/ArticleHTM.aspx?manuId=348