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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Main Authors:	Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi, Abdullah, Nor Zamzila, Othman, Norliza, Tajidin, Syazwani, Mohd Zanidin, Siti Nabilah, Mat Nor, Mohd. Basri, Mohd Yatim, Asmarawati
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	R Medicine (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/1/Poster_Abst4_Establishing_New_Chronic_Pain_Clinic_2014.pdf

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spelling	iium-370852018-06-19T04:25:21Z 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 Conference or Workshop Item 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)
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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
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.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
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
author_sort	Mohamed, Rozilah @ Abdul Hadi
title	Establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements
title_short	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_sort	establishing a new chronic pain clinic: challenges and achievements
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37085/1/Poster_Abst4_Establishing_New_Chronic_Pain_Clinic_2014.pdf
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