Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of chronic pain ranges from 40% to 80% in long-term care facilities (LTCF), with the highest proportion being found among older adults and residents with dementia. Unfortunately, pain in older adults is underdiagnosed, undertreated, inadequately treated or not treated at a...
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| author | Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme Michel Tousignant David Lussier Paule Lebel Maryse Savoie Lyne Lalonde Manon Choinière |
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| description | BACKGROUND: The prevalence of chronic pain ranges from 40% to 80% in long-term care facilities (LTCF), with the highest proportion being found among older adults and residents with dementia. Unfortunately, pain in older adults is underdiagnosed, undertreated, inadequately treated or not treated at all. A solution to this problem would be to provide effective and innovative interdisciplinary continuing education to health care providers (HCPs). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-160b50a2b5c14d22b6351af6dd3126e92025-02-03T01:01:46ZengWileyPain Research and Management1203-67652012-01-0117534134610.1155/2012/506352Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain ManagementYannick Tousignant-Laflamme0Michel Tousignant1David Lussier2Paule Lebel3Maryse Savoie4Lyne Lalonde5Manon Choinière6School of Rehabilitation, Université de Sherbrooke, CanadaSchool of Rehabilitation, Université de Sherbrooke, CanadaInstitut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, CanadaCentre de pédagogie appliquée aux sciences de la santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, canadaHôpital Ste-Anne, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, CanadaFaculté de pharmacie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, CanadaCentre de recherche, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, CanadaBACKGROUND: The prevalence of chronic pain ranges from 40% to 80% in long-term care facilities (LTCF), with the highest proportion being found among older adults and residents with dementia. Unfortunately, pain in older adults is underdiagnosed, undertreated, inadequately treated or not treated at all. A solution to this problem would be to provide effective and innovative interdisciplinary continuing education to health care providers (HCPs).http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/506352 |
| spellingShingle | Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme Michel Tousignant David Lussier Paule Lebel Maryse Savoie Lyne Lalonde Manon Choinière Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management Pain Research and Management |
| title | Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management |
| title_full | Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management |
| title_fullStr | Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management |
| title_short | Educational Needs of Health Care Providers Working in Long-Term Care Facilities with Regard to Pain Management |
| title_sort | educational needs of health care providers working in long term care facilities with regard to pain management |
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