Multidisciplinary approach to chronic pain treatment, its economic advisability
Abstract The main principles of multidisciplinary clinic for patients with chronic pain are analyzed in this article. Integration of various medical disciplines and specialists for professional and psychophysiological adaptation can contribute to a more comprehensive treatment of chronic pain. The access to ongoing active psychocognitive therapy is necessarily required for this type of clinics. A multidisciplinary clinic established on the basis of multifunctional health care centers provides an opportunity to use the whole range of diagnostic methods such as clinical observation and instrumental methods. Methods of interventional treatment provide the more effective treatment of chronic pain as well. Multidisciplinary approach results in both more effective chronic pain relief and physical activity normalization and also in ability to a faster social and working life rehabilitation. Multidisciplinary treatment is 9 times more economically feasible than ordinary conservative therapy and is 3.5 times more effective than surgical intervention. Multidisciplinary clinics annual functioning cost leads to a straight economic efficiency of healthcare services that is equal to their double cost.
Keywords:multidisciplinary pain clinic, multidisciplinary approach, chronic pain treatment, multidisciplinary pain treatment effectiveness, multidisciplinary economic feasibility
Clin. Experiment. Surg. Petrovsky J. 2016. № 3. Р. 13–19.
Received: 13.05.2016. Accepted: 20.06.2016.
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