Open AccessIntegration of specialized pain control services in palliative care: A nationwide web-based survey
Author(s) -
Nivedita Page
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1075.204233
Subject(s) - palliative care , medicine , pain control , control (management) , pain relief , pain management , the internet , nursing , physical therapy , surgery , management , world wide web , computer science , economics
Pain control is an important part of palliative care (PC), and conventional analgesics do not provide adequate pain relief to all patients. Many patients present with complex pain syndromes that require interventional pain control measures usually deployed by pain specialists. There is adequate integration of specialized pain control services with PC elsewhere, but information about the same in our country is lacking.