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The AQDC and its partners in the Quebec pain portal
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The ACCORD programme is the fruit of a community alliance that brings together researchers, clinicians, decision-makers and people suffering from chronic pain. ACCORD is a research and education programme that is essentially intended to improve the condition of people suffering from chronic pain and the care offered to them by developing innovative strategies for exchanging and applying knowledge concerning the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain in adults and elderly people. The impact and the effectiveness of the interventions that are implemented are evaluated in clinical, social and economic terms. The results of this research work will serve to improve the quality of life of individuals suffering from chronic pain by giving them access to quality care and assigning them a role as active partners in the management of their health.
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Pain research at McGill University is conducted at the AECRP (Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain). The centre comprises researchers from the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Science. Its main goal is to bring together the McGill community of basic and clinical pain researchers to promote research that will result in cures for chronic pain. Through activities and international collaborations, the Centre focuses on new discoveries and their clinical applications that will improve the prevention and treatment of chronic pain.
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The Société québécoise de la douleur is an association of professionals from multiple disciplines who want to improve the treat of chronic pain in Quebec. The SQD’s goals include :
 Promoting multidisciplinarity in pain clinics;
Promoting ongoing training;
Creating training programmes;
Promoting political and financial support for pain treatment centres.
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was created in 2001. It focuses on understanding the mechanisms of chronic pain – from molecules to models, from human psychophysical measurements to clinical trials – on a multidisciplinary and complementary basis, in order to transfer new knowledge to clinical practice and other sectors of intervention. This research is concentrated on three major focal points or strategic groups, each designated by an “action” verb: to Evaluate, Explain and See pain.
With more than 50 regular members and 26 associate members affiliated with the four universities that form the foundation of the Réseaux universitaires intégrés de soins (RUIS), namely Laval, McGill, Sherbrooke and Montréal, the QPRN is now supported by mixed financing that comes from the FRSQ, Quebec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, as well as two pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer Canada and AstraZeneca.
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