Editorial for the special issue of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain

Bao-Gan Peng; Yan-Qing Liu; Ke Ma

doi:10.12998/wjcc.v9.i9.2022

Editorial for the special issue of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain

World J Clin Cases. 2021 Mar 26;9(9):2022-2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i9.2022.

Authors

Bao-Gan Peng¹, Yan-Qing Liu², Ke Ma³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing 100039, China. pengbaogan76611@163.com.
² Department of Algology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China.
³ Department of Algology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China.

Abstract

The Ministry of Health of China officially issued a document, adding the first level diagnosis and treatment discipline "Algology" in the list of diagnosis and treatment subjects of medical institutions on July 16, 2007. As the most important pain academic organization in China, the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain has made outstanding contributions in promoting the development of pain discipline and in establishing pain standards and disease diagnosis and treatment guidelines. In this special issue, under the leadership of Yan-Qing Liu, Chairman of the 7^th Committee of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain, nine consensus and one guideline were included.

Keywords: Algology; Chinese Association for the Study of Pain; Consensus; Guidelines; Pain; Recommendations.

Publication types

Editorial