Clinical Corner: Pain Management

Articles

Pain Barriers (Caring for the Ages, June 2004, Vol. 5, No. 6, p. 68-72)

Vital Sign #5 (Caring for the Ages, May 2004, Vol. 5 No. 5, p. 26-35)

The Policies of Pain (Caring for the Ages, August 2003, Vol. 4, No. 8, p. 20-23)

Pain in the Elderly: Listen to the Patient's Voice (Caring for the Ages, April 2003, Vol. 4 No. 4, p. 44-47)

Courts Weigh In on Use of Drugs for Assisted Suicide & Pain Management (Caring for the Ages, September 2002, Vol. 3, No. 9, p. 29-30)

Pain Management in End-of-Life Care: Are We Meeting Our Dying Patients' Needs? (Caring for the Ages, July 2002, Vol. 3, No. 7, p. 12-15)

Opioids Can Safely Ease Chronic Non-Malignant Pain (Caring for the Ages, July 2002, Vol. 3, No. 7, p. 1, 26-29)

Protocol Pinpoints Discomfort in Late-Stage Dementia Patients (Caring for the Ages, October 2001, Vol. 2, No. 10, p. 1)

Toward a Good Death in the Nursing Home: Pain Management & Hospice are Key (Caring for the Ages, July 2001, Vol. 2, No. 7, p. 24-26)

Tools and Resources

Slide Presentation: In-Service: AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Pain Management

Slide Presentation Notes: In-Service: AMDA Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Pain Management (Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format)

Pain/Discomfort Evaluation Tools (Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format)

Symptom Acuity Graph (Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format)

Reference Bibliography

Education & CME Programs

Products & Publications

Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management (AMDA CPG Implementation Toolkit published 2004)

Links

American Pain Society

Worldwide Congress on Pain

International Association for the Study of Pain®