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

Preferred term

Pain Clinics  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Center, Pain
  • Centers, Pain
  • Pain Center
  • Pain Centers
  • Pain Relief Unit
  • Pain Relief Units
  • Unit, Pain Relief
  • Units, Pain Relief

Note

  • for diag & ther; coord IM with specific dis (IM) if pertinent

Scope note

  • 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)

History note

  • 95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018710

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