Clinical Practice Guideline: Pain Management (revised 2009)

This guideline outlines many of the myths and misperceptions about pain caused by nonmalignant conditions and the barriers to effective pain management and offers steps for overcoming these barriers.

The revised guideline now has an acute pain component to address the CMS quality initiative measure for pain. It also includes an expanded section on recognizing pain in the cognitively impaired, an expanded section on pain management in palliative care, updated pharmacology, an expanded section on alternative therapies, a more appropriate way of measuring pain management for residents who either don't ask for pain medication or for those who most likely are controlled but will still claim to be in pain. The guideline is directed toward the entire interdisciplinary team — as well as patients and their families — in order to achieve effective pain management.

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Product Code: CPG11R
Member Price: $15
Non-member Price: $35
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Note: To earn AMA PRA category 1 credit, see the CME insert included with this CPG or go to www.amdacmedirect.com/pain.

For additional information, visit the Clinical Corner on Pain Management.