Pain Clinic in Tibet, China: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.

This study collected and analyzed the data of medical records of pain clinic in Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital from September 2017 to August 2018. The results showed that the total amounts of patients visiting pain clinic were very small, the most common pain diseases were postherpetic neuralgia and sciatica, and more female patients visited the pain clinic than male patients. All these results indicate that the hospital and government need to pay more attention to the development and promotion of pain medicine in Tibet to make Tibetans being accessed to high-quality pain clinic service.
PMID: 30766644 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Pain Research and Management - February 17, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Shen L, Zhang X, Dawawuzhu, Labaciren, Zhang Y, Xu Z, Huang Y Tags: Pain Res Manag Source Type: research