Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements
Chronic pain is major public health problem that is associated with reduction in quality of life, poor psychological adjustment, physical disability, decreased income and high care cost which leads to great loss to the country. Patients suffering from chronic pain are in ne...
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| author | Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Othman, Norliza Tajidin, Syazwani Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah Mat Nor, Mohd Basri Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati |
| author_facet | Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Othman, Norliza Tajidin, Syazwani Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah Mat Nor, Mohd Basri Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati |
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| description | Chronic pain is major public health problem that is associated with reduction in quality of life, poor psychological adjustment, physical disability,
decreased income and high care cost which leads to
great loss to the country. Patients suffering from chronic pain are in need of treatment and follow up from proper Chronic Pain Clinic. Unfortunately, the number of such facilities is limited as this area of expertise is rather new in Medicine. The objective of this paper is to share our experience on the challenges faced in the establishment of Chronic Pain Clinic in Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital, Kuantan, Pahang. This paper will describe the challenges that we have gone through from planning to the implementation of such clinic in 2009 and our achievement thus far. Administrative issues such as limited space and time, man power, financial support and resources are among
majorchallenges faced apart from patients and management team's limitations. It is our future plan to include more disciplines in the management team as to ensure better patients' outcome towards a pain free hospital as envisaged by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia. |
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| spelling | iium-370852020-07-15T03:00:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/ Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Othman, Norliza Tajidin, Syazwani Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah Mat Nor, Mohd Basri Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati R Medicine (General) Chronic pain is major public health problem that is associated with reduction in quality of life, poor psychological adjustment, physical disability, decreased income and high care cost which leads to great loss to the country. Patients suffering from chronic pain are in need of treatment and follow up from proper Chronic Pain Clinic. Unfortunately, the number of such facilities is limited as this area of expertise is rather new in Medicine. The objective of this paper is to share our experience on the challenges faced in the establishment of Chronic Pain Clinic in Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital, Kuantan, Pahang. This paper will describe the challenges that we have gone through from planning to the implementation of such clinic in 2009 and our achievement thus far. Administrative issues such as limited space and time, man power, financial support and resources are among majorchallenges faced apart from patients and management team's limitations. It is our future plan to include more disciplines in the management team as to ensure better patients' outcome towards a pain free hospital as envisaged by the Ministry of Health of Malaysia. 2014-04-15 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/1/Poster_Abst4_Establishing_New_Chronic_Pain_Clinic_2014.pdf Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi and Abdullah, Nor Zamzila and Othman, Norliza and Tajidin, Syazwani and Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah and Mat Nor, Mohd Basri and Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati (2014) Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements. In: Biennial Scientific Meeting Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain 2014, 15-16th April 2014, Swan Convention Centre Sunway Medical Centre Selangor. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Nor Zamzila Othman, Norliza Tajidin, Syazwani Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah Mat Nor, Mohd Basri Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title | Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title_full | Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title_fullStr | Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title_short | Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| title_sort | establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements |
| topic | R Medicine (General) |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/1/Poster_Abst4_Establishing_New_Chronic_Pain_Clinic_2014.pdf |