ArticleFrontiers in medicine2024
Impact of the pandemic on hospital care for chronic pain patients in Germany.
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic affected patients' access to health services, including patients with severe chronic pain. Since limited data on pandemic-caused changes in pain therapy is available, we analyzed its effect on hospital-based pain treatment. Methods: For this retrospective claims data analysis conducted in Results: There was a significant decrease in day-care, inpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain management, from a total of 5,533 hospital pre-pandemic treatments in 2019, to 3,942 in 2020 and 4,262 in 2021, with a slight increase in the first half of 2022. The extent of COVID-19-related changes differed depending on region and pain unit size. Conclusion: The decreased number of hospital pain treatments during the pandemic implies a relevant analgesic undertreatment. During future pandemics, the ethical dimension of potentially non-sufficient pain treatment should be weighted against social, medical and hygienic restrictions influencing the hospitalization rate.
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