TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 8. Management of Patients with Chronic Pain A1 - Cline, David M. A2 - Cline, David M. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Cydulka, Rita K. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Handel, Daniel A. A2 - Thomas, Stephen H. Y1 - 2012 N1 - T2 - Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine Manual, 7e AB - Chronic pain is defined as a painful condition that lasts longer than 3 months. It also can be defined as pain that persists beyond the reasonable time for an injury to heal or a month beyond the usual course of an acute disease. Complete eradication of pain is not a reasonable endpoint in most cases. Rather, the goal of therapy is pain reduction and a return to functional status. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56271580 ER -