Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on October 22, 2009
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsp089
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Response to the Commentary: A Worldwide Call for Multimodal Inpatient Treatment for Children and Adolescents Suffering from Chronic Pain and Pain-related Disability
The Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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The commentary by Hechler, Dobe, & Zernikow (2009) that discusses our retrospective review of an inpatient protocol for pain-associated disability (Maynard, Amari, Wieczorek, Christensen, & Slifer, 2009) highlights a number of important points for consideration regarding the worldwide need and standards for multimodal inpatient treatment of children and adolescents with chronic pain and pain-related disability. In their commentary and recent work reporting the results of a similar multimodal inpatient protocol, Hechler, Blankenburg, Dobe, Kosfelder, Hübner, & Zernikowet, (2009
) have cogently set forth important standards for future clinical trials of multidisciplinary inpatient treatment for chronic pain and functional disability in children and adolescents. We acknowledged the considerable limitations of a retrospective study in Maynard et al. (2009).