PARTNERSAGAINSTPAIN is live with an update that includes discussions of 
chronic pain and its etiology, the use of opioids to help treat chronic pain, 
a detailed set of algorithms to help develop and implement JCAHO-consistent 
pain management plans and a new section devoted to articles on the cost of 
pain.  Here are a few highlights as an introduction.   

Chronic pain:  A new disease? 
Nearly one-third of the American population experiences chronic pain at some 
point in life.  This figure, disturbing on its own, becomes more problematic 
in light of recent studies which demonstrate that chronic pain is a 
destructive disease process that creates pathologic changes in the central 
and peripheral nervous systems.

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/profed/pmc/pe_pmc4.htm?a=21807&
b=newdisease&c=14590#newdisease

Chronic pain:  The case for opioids
Article addresses the significant issues surrounding treatment for chronic 
pain in general and specifically the use of opioids. The author believes that 
opioid medications allow us to treat chronic pain as aggressively as we would 
any pathogen, but that barriers against their use are only slowly being 
dismantled.

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/profed/pmc/pe_pmc6.htm?a=21807&
b=paincase&c=14590#paincase

Pain management:  Tools for implementing the new JCAHO standards
Seven-part printed “tool kit” includes the standards, key economic measures 
and key process steps to help hospitals prepare for new the Joint Commission 
pain standards.  Includes details of the new JCAHO requirements for 
organizations; ways to document and demonstrate compliance for JCAHO 
surveyors; 8-step algorithm for “institutionalizing a commitment” to pain 
management, and more.

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/news/pro_news.htm?a=21807&b=0&c=14590

Pain after surgery feared and undertreated
Patients preparing for surgery express greater concern over pain than over 
the prospect of a full recovery.  Nearly 60% list pain as their greatest 
pre-surgery worry — above the desire even “to get better.”

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/profed/pmc/pe_pmc5.htm?a=21807&
b=feared&c=14590#feared

Pain and suffering in seriously ill hospitalized patients
Using studies that assess factors related to the frequency and severity of 
pain in seriously ill and older hospitalized patients, researchers found that 
although there was wide variation among the five teaching hospitals studied, 
this patient group experienced frequent and severe pain during 
hospitalization.

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/inst/lit_stu.htm?a=21807&b=painsuffer&
c=14590#painsuffer

Families’ perception of added value of hospice in nursing home
A compelling study provides the first evidence that “nursing home hospice” — 
skilled pain management and other palliative care services provided by 
hospice agencies on a contract basis — enhances quality of care for the dying 
in the nursing home setting.

http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/html/profed/pmc/pe_pmc2.htm?a=21807&
b=fampercep&c=14590#fampercep

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