Chronic Pain in Children: A Look at the Referral Process to a Pediatric Pain Clinic

Table 5

Therapeutic interventions recommended by our team with outcomes (CAM: Complementary Alternative Medicine).

New recommendations		Improvement	Lost to follow-up
CAM	14	8 (57%)	3 (21%)
CAM + psychotherapy	25	14 (56%)	3 (8%)
Admission in Chronic Pain Rehabilitation program	7	5 (71%)	0
Referral to surgical services	7	4 (57%)	1 (14%)
Referral to medical services	3		3 (100%)
Spinal cord stimulator, pump for intrathecal delivery of morphine	2	2 (100%)	0
Local or epidural infiltration with steroids	4	2 (50%)	1 (25%)
Referral to physical therapy	3	1 (33%)	0
Antidepressant	7	6 (86%)	0
New opioid-anticonvulsant	3	1 (33%)	1 (33%)
Total	75	43 (57%)	12 (16%)