The social costs of cares for chronic pain patients is an important aspect, also giving problems to the health care systems. Any suggestion to increasing visibility, with not negative influences on the costs for the national welfare system would be more than welcome.
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Maybe with studies that show the burden of pain in our society, and this burden assesses with the morbidity, disability, emotional consequences and lose of quality of life.
One way is certainly to publish articles connecting the subjective VAS-scale of pain with the treatment type and financial burden of the institution, where the patient is taken care of. For example, some articles are available connecting the influence of pain on the healing process of wounds. An extended healing period certainly influences the overall treatment costs, not to forget the effects on the societal level.
The other would be to disseminate results connecting pain with socio-economic burden, backed with clinical data in projects (if a suitable call should be published) in leaflets, magazines, online blogs - publishing experiences of patients and MDs etc.
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