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Efficient pain therapy using electronic diaries
As a precursor to a successfull pain therapy, pain documentation takes an important role. To
diagnose out of over 200 different types of headaches is a very involved task, and only with a
timely and correct pain documentation can the diagnosis be derived and neccessary adjustments to
ongoing treatment be done in order to optimize the patient's quality of life.
Only by maintaining a pain diary patients can learn to understand their pain, the pain diary
allows patients and doctors to identify the factors that contribute to or even trigger pain
attacks. Based on such observations and analytical reports of the collected data the malevolent
aspects can be reduced if not even prevented entirely.
AC-STB provides an electronic pain diary and thus allows flexible adjustments to be made in a
timely manner and in that give patients the opportunity manage their pain - gaining back the
control over their life.
Pain documentation is considered as a requirement by many guidelines for clinical
monitoring in order to diagnose ailments, especially for patients with chronic pain. Most pain
documentation is still kept in paper-form as efficient and easy to use eletronic alternatives were
unavailable, but the situation changes as electronic documentation gains acceptance - the benefits
that the availability of pain data in electronic format provide drive this process. |
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