Pain medicine : the official journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine
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Multicenter Study
Immediate Adverse Events in Interventional Pain Procedures: A Multi-Institutional Study.
Interventional procedures directed toward sources of pain in the axial and appendicular musculoskeletal system are performed with increasing frequency. Despite the presence of evidence-based guidelines for such procedures, there are wide variations in practice. Case reports of serious complications such as spinal cord infarction or infection from spine injections lack appropriate context and create a misleading view of the risks of appropriately performed interventional pain procedures. ⋯ This study demonstrates that interventional pain procedures are safely performed with extremely low immediate adverse event rates when evidence-based guidelines are observed.
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Clinical Trial
How Do Patients with Chronic Pain Benefit from a Peer-Supported Pain Self-Management Intervention? A Qualitative Investigation.
Peer support is a novel and under-studied approach to the management of chronic pain. This study's purpose was to uncover the elements of a peer-supported self-management intervention that are perceived by participants as essential to achieving positive changes. ⋯ Peer support represents a promising approach to chronic pain management that merits further study. The current study helps to identify intervention elements perceived by participants to be important in achieving positive results. Understanding how peer support may benefit patients is essential to optimize the effectiveness of peer support interventions and increase the implementation potential of peer-supported pain self-management into clinical practice.