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... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Organization and Administration > Health Facility Administration > Hospital Administration > Hospital Departments > Outpatient Clinics, Hospital > Pain Clinics
... > Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Facilities > Health Facility Administration > Hospital Administration > Hospital Departments > Outpatient Clinics, Hospital > Pain Clinics
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Facilities > Ambulatory Care Facilities > Outpatient Clinics, Hospital > Pain Clinics

Preferred term

Pain Clinics  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Facilities providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and palliative services for patients with severe chronic pain. These may be free-standing clinics or hospital-based and serve ambulatory or inpatient populations. The approach is usually multidisciplinary. These clinics are often referred to as "acute pain services". (From Br Med Bull 1991 Jul;47(3):762-85)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pain Centers
  • Pain Relief Units

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Centres antidouleur

    French

  • Centre de traitement de la douleur
  • Centres anti-douleur
  • Centres de la douleur
  • Centres de lutte contre la douleur
  • Centres de traitement de la douleur
  • CLUD
  • Consultations anti-douleur
  • Consultations antidouleur
  • Consultations de la douleur
  • Unités de soins anti-douleur
  • Unités de soins antidouleur

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-LKDVM01S-6

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