The Joint Commission is revising pain “assessment and management standards” for behavioral health care, home care and nursing care center programs in the wake of the nation’s opioid crisis.

Healthcare professionals must think deeply about pain and its consequences and provide pain assessment and management services in a just manner. The International Association for the Study of Pain ...

Three important and addressable barriers to more effective pain management can be identified. First, pain is not assessed in a standardized manner in many practice settings. 7 Pain is a subjective ...

Dennis C. Turk, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, provides guidance on best practices in chronic pain assessment.

The Joint Commission (TJC) recently released new and revised pain assessment and management standards and elements of performance for its hospital accreditation program. These standards, effective ...

Pain in critical ill patients is a frequent phenomenon. 30-50% of all ICU patients have pain at rest and many patients are unable to express pain verbally. Though most of the patients aren’t able to ...

In this new era of pain assessment and management, good performance measures are needed in order to benchmark how physicians, medical groups, and health plans perform, and to track improvements.

On January, 1, 2018, The Joint Commission’s (“TJC”) new and revised pain assessment and management standards go into effect for TJC accredited hospitals.

Pain assessment and management fall within the comprehensive scope of palliative care that should be provided concurrently with curative interventions and supportive care in the ICU.

The influence of culture on the meaning attributed to pain, pain communication, and pain treatment will be discussed. A broad overview of several other social factors related to pain assessment and ...

Assessment of Adequacy of Pain Management and Analgesic Use in Patients With Advanced Cancer Using the Brief Pain Inventory and Pain Management Index Calculation. JGO 3 , 235-241 (2017). DOI: ...

Black patients living with serious illness face stark racial disparities in the quality of pain and symptom management. Medicare Advantage plans, which cover many Black beneficiaries, can take ...