Addressing Obstacles to Evidence-Informed Pain Care

Bibliographic Data

ID15744488
AuthorsAMA Pain Care Task Force (corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume22
Issue8
PagesE709-717
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe AMA Journal of Ethic (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2376-6980 • E-ISSN: 2376-6980
PublisherAmerican Medical Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1001/amajethics.2020.709
PMID32880360
OpenAlexW3047234060
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

Pain is a universal human experience and the most common reason patients seek health care. This article describes barriers to effective, high-quality, evidence-informed pain care. Based on the clinical literature and pain specialists' survey results, the AMA Pain Care Task Force suggests strategies that clinicians can use to offer good pain care to patients. The task force also canvasses key policy-level concerns that situate clinicians in micro- and macro-level complexities related to payers, workforce and training demands, legal and regulatory questions, research, stigma, and patients' beliefs and expectations

Health care · Management · Pain management · Physical therapy · Political science · Task (project management · Task force · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Nursing · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Pain Management and Opioid Use · Psychology · Public Administration