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Make a CHANGE: optimising communication and pain management decisions

Gerhard Müller-Schwefe Schmerz- und Palliativzentrum, Göppingen, Germany
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Wolfgang Jaksch Schmerzambulanz, Wilhelminenspital der Stadt Wien, Austria
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Bart Morlion Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
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Eija Kalso Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
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Michael Schäfer Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Berlin, Germany
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Flaminia Coluzzi Department of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Frank Huygen Pain Treatment Centre, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Magdalena Kocot-Kepska Poradnia Leczenia Bólu University Hospital, Kraków, Poland
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Ana Cristina Mangas Pain Specialist, Unidor, Unidade de Tratamento de Dor, Hospital de Santo André, Leiria, Portugal
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Cesar Margarit Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Spain
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Karsten Ahlbeck Department of Anesthesia, Surgical Services and Intensive Care, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Sweden
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Philippe Mavrocordatos Clinique Cecil, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Eli Alon Universitätsspital Zurich, Switzerland
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Beverly Collett The Pain Management Service, University Hospitals of Leicester, UK
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Dominic Aldington Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Andrew Nicolaou St. George’s Hospital, London, UK
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Joseph Pergolizzi Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Naples Anesthesia and Pain Associates, Naples, FL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Giustino Varrassi Università degli Studi di L'Aquila, Italy
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Pages 481-488 | Accepted 02 Dec 2010, Published online: 03 Jan 2011

Figures & data

Figure 1.  Differences between physicians' and patients' pain assessments: physicians frequently underestimate patients’ pain and impairment. [From Mueller-Schwefe, 2005].

Figure 1.  Differences between physicians' and patients' pain assessments: physicians frequently underestimate patients’ pain and impairment. [From Mueller-Schwefe, 2005].

Figure 2.  Variation in pain management strategy (CHANGE PAIN physician survey).

Figure 2.  Variation in pain management strategy (CHANGE PAIN physician survey).

Figure 3.  The CHANGE PAIN scale.

Figure 3.  The CHANGE PAIN scale.

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