“…The reasons for termination of the survey were death [16,17,26,27,29,38,42,48,54,59], freedom from pain [15,29,42,59], low compliance [15,27,29,42], treatment continued by practitioner or in another hospital [15,16,29,42,59], loss of follow-up or contact (drop out) [13,15,16,27,29,38,42,54,59], no need of further therapy [16], change of therapy to other methods (e.g., neurolytic blocks, epidural or parenteral opioids, etc.) [38] and/or discharge from the program [54].…”