Research Article
Perspective of Pain Clinicians in Three Global Cities on Local Barriers to Providing Care for Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients
Table 1
Principal barriers in pain programs.
| Domain | Themes | Toronto | Kuwait | Karachi |
| Infrastructure | (1) Lack of general resources | x | x | x | (2) Lack of human resources | x | x | x | (3) Obstacles in hospital systems | x | x | x |
| Clinical services | (4) System barriers | — | x | x | (5) Patients issues | x | x | | (6) Lack of communication/collaboration among providers | x | — | — |
| Education | (7) Shortage of systematic pain management education program | x | — | — | (8) Lack of pain management knowledge among pain clinic staff | x | x | x | (9) Lack of pain management knowledge by general physicians | — | x | x | (10) Lack of education of patient population | — | x | x |
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x: at least one key informant from the city indicated by the column heading reported a barrier that could be assigned to the barriers theme row.
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