At the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) last week, Dr Mary Suma Cardosa, pain specialist at Hospital Selayang and President of the Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain, presented over a decade of work in Malaysia addressing pain. Cardosa described how adoption of “pain as the fifth vital sign” in 2008 improved awareness of pain in hospitals but did not lead to significant practice change. The Pain Free Hospital campaign was subsequently initiated in Malaysia's public health system in 2011, and extended to include primary care and dental services in 2017.
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