The Korean Journal of Pain

The Korean Pain Society (대한통증학회)
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The Evaluation of Permanent Impairment in Chronic Pain Patients

통증질환의 장애인정 여부에 대하여

  • Kim, Yong-Chul (Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
  • 김용철 (서울대학교 의과대학 마취과학교실)
  • Received : 2007.05.26
  • Accepted : 2007.06.07
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

Pain is one of the most common causes of disability and work loss. However, patients with chronic pain have not been regarded as impaired persons in the Republic of Korea because of a lack of objective findings in those patients and difficulties in validating their genuine suffering and quantitative evaluation of pain. Here, the difficulties in the evaluation of impairment in chronic pain patients are discussed. In addition, guidelines for rating impairment in chronic pain patients, which are under development by the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, are introduced.

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