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Patient education improves satisfaction with chronic pain care.(Physician Involvement)
NEW ORLEANS -- When chronic pain patients felt educated by their physician about the pain, they tended to be satisfied with their care in a recent study--and those whose physician disagreed with the patient's assessment of the level of pain were less satisfied.
Of 115 noncancer patients in the cross-sectional, multicenter study, 83 (72%) said they felt well educated by their physicians. The patients were surveyed just prior to the physician visit, and interviewed by telephone 2 weeks later, Dr. Ian A. Chen reported at the southern regional meeting of the American Federation for Medical Research.
Patient perception of being educated by the physician was the strongest predictor of increased patient satisfaction, based on bivariate analysis. Logistic regression analysis also showed that patient satisfaction was associated positively with patient perception of being educated (odds ratio of 4.0), and negatively with physician-patient pain assessment discordance (odds ratio 0.38), said Dr. Chen of the department of medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Patient education improves satisfaction with chronic pain...