Peng BG, Liu YQ, Ma K. Editorial for the special issue of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9(9): 2022-2026 [PMID: 33850921 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i9.2022]
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Bao-Gan Peng, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Orthopedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, No. 69 Yongding Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100039, China. pengbaogan76611@163.com
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World J Clin Cases. Mar 26, 2021; 9(9): 2022-2026 Published online Mar 26, 2021. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i9.2022
Editorial for the special issue of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain
Bao-Gan Peng, Yan-Qing Liu, Ke Ma
Bao-Gan Peng, Department of Orthopedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 100039, China
Yan-Qing Liu, Department of Algology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
Ke Ma, Department of Algology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China
Author contributions: Peng BG, Liu YQ, and Ma K contributed to the writing and revising of this manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No conflict of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Bao-Gan Peng, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Orthopedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, No. 69 Yongding Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100039, China. pengbaogan76611@163.com
Received: November 30, 2020 Peer-review started: November 30, 2020 First decision: January 10, 2021 Revised: February 19, 2021 Accepted: March 18, 2021 Article in press: March 18, 2021 Published online: March 26, 2021
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 7th Committee of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain, nine consensus and one guideline were included.
Core Tip: Pain medicine has developed rapidly in China and accumulated rich Chinese experience in the diagnosis and treatment of various pain diseases. Under the leadership of Yan-Qing Liu, Chairman of the 7th Committee of the Chinese Association for the Study of Pain, this special edition contains nine consensus and one guideline.
