Primary Care of Patients With Chronic Pain
Primary Care of Patients With Chronic Pain is a scholarly work by Thomas L. Schwenk, published in 2017 in ''The Journal of the American Medical Association''. The main subjects of the publication include chronic pain, pain management, opioid, chronic primary pain, primary care, medicine, physiotherapy, opioid epidemic in the United States, and intensive care medicine. This Viewpoint advocates for reducing opioid misuse among primary care patients with chronic pain through a comprehensive approach emphasizing shared decision making, nonpharmacological treatments, nonopioid therapy, and a focus on functional improvement rather than pain elimination.