Swedish Pain Registry
Sweden: Pain Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation (SQRP)
As discussed during the first Swedish SIP meeting, which took place on 30 May 2012 prior to the international SIP symposium in Copenhagen, the development of a pain register in Sweden has been initiated. The regional collaboration project will be piloted by the two Swedish regions Östergötland and Västerbotten with the aim to improve pain rehabilitation with in the primary sector.
Rationale behind this register is the fact that every fifth patient and up to nearly half of all patients are seeing their GP because of pain. However, uniformed strategies to identify patients needing a multimodal pain rehabilitation on both primary care as well as specialist level is still lacking. The register will be tested on 400 patients seeking primary healthcare in the two regions.
The initiative nicely reflects how selected policy dimensions from the SIP Road Map of Action are taken up by Member States for addressing them with their national governments and implementing them locally.
The registry was presented by Marcelo Rivano Fischer and Björn Gerdle during SIP 2012.
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