German Society for Pain Medicine
German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS) |
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purpose | Medical society for pain therapy |
Chair: | Johannes Horlemann |
Establishment date: | 1984 |
Seat : | Berlin |
Website: | dgschmerzmedizin.de |
The German Society for Pain Medicine eV (DGS) is a medical society for pain medicine based in Berlin .
history
In 1984 Thomas Flöter and Dietrich Jungck founded the Schmerztherapeutisches Kolloquium eV (STK). In 2003, the founders received the Federal Cross of Merit for their services to pain therapy .
aims
Society is committed to
- promoting algesiology as the science of pain ,
- the quality assurance in the treatment of pain,
- the creation of therapy standards for the qualitative and quantitative improvement of pain therapy patient care,
- the promotion of palliative medical care for people in the end of life ,
- advanced training in the fields of pain diagnosis and pain therapy,
- recognition of the additional qualification in algesiology for appropriately trained doctors in all areas,
- the establishment of interdisciplinary pain therapy centers ( pain conference, pain forum; in 2005 over 100 locations in the Federal Republic of Germany) and
- the modification of the Narcotics Act to prescribe narcotics .
German pain award
Once a year the DGS organizes the "German Pain and Palliative Day" in Frankfurt am Main and has also awarded the German Pain Prize every year since 1986 . The scientific sponsors of the award are the DGS and the German Pain League .
Magazines
It has been publishing the journal pain medicine since 1985 and, in cooperation with the German Society for Algesiology (DGfA), awards the association's internal qualification as algesiologist DGS / DGfA, the requirements of which are far stricter than those for the additional designation of special pain therapy and are checked annually.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://dgschmerzmedizin.de/ansprechpartner.html
- ↑ http://dgschmerzmedizin.de/satzung.html
- ↑ German Pain and Palliative Day 2016 (with archive). Retrieved September 27, 2016 .