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)
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Pain Clinics -- organization & administration : Chronic pain management : guidelines for multidisciplinary program development / edited by Michael E. Schatman, Alexandra Campbell ; foreword by John D. Loeser
