Chronic Pain Management: The Necessity of Changing Attitudes, Goals and Strategies

Document Type : Letter to Editor

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Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz, Iran.
Abstract
One of the main problems of the health system in the word is the increasing prevalence of chronic pain and failure to manage it. Although many studies have been conducted on the management of this type of pain around the world, specialties related to pain and research centers of chronic pain as well as scientific centers have been established in universities, various treatment and caring models have been presented subsequently, but chronic pain continues ias a difficult health problem to be treated and lies on the face of the policy makers and custodians of health system as a multifaceted puzzle

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