Chronic Pain, Quality of Life, and Suicidal Behavior

• By: Thomas Grinley, MS, MBA, CMQ/OE, LSSGB, CCISM New Hampshire Dept. of Health and Human Services
• April 24th, 2024
• chronic pain, pain tolerance, quality of life, Spring 2024 Issue, suicidal ideation, suicide prevention
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In the mid-1970s, Quality of Life (QOL) was identified as a key medical concept (Berlim and Fleck, 2003). Readily adopted in oncology, the concept spread through different fields of medicine and eventually to psychiatry. Many tools were developed to take QOL from a subjective concept to a...