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01-07-2019 | Opioids | Concise Research Reports
Patient-Reported Outcomes of an Integrative Pain Management Program Implemented in a Primary Care Safety Net Clinic: a Quasi-experimental Study
Authors:
Maria Teresa Chao, DrPH, MPA, Emily Hurstak, MD, MPH, MAS, Kristina Leonoudakis-Watts, BA, Frank Sidders, MPH, Joseph Pace, MD, Hali Hammer, MD, Barbara Wismer, MD, MPH
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 7/2019
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Excerpt
Socioeconomically vulnerable patients experience high rates of pain, barriers to care,
1 and risks from conventional pain treatments.
2 Multimodal, non-pharmacologic approaches are recommended as first-line treatments for chronic pain,
3 but are often unavailable in resource-limited settings. We evaluated the impact of a multimodal chronic pain management program among patients at a safety-net clinic. …