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Pain strategy launched

Experts are calling for chronic pain to be recognised as a disease in its own right, saying it should be included as a fifth vital sign that should be recorded alongside as BP, heart rate, temperature and breathing rate. 

Pain specialist Professor Michael Cousins today released the initial draft of the National Pain Strategy, a world-first, to be finalised at the National Pain Summit in Canberra in 2010. www.painsummit.org.au