Search here for good pain management standards
Search here for good pain management standards
Many health care organizations have published excellent standards for pain management and end-of-life care that case managers can adopt when developing pain policies and pain outcomes measurements for use in their own organizations. Those organizations include:
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, AHCPR Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 8547, Silver Spring, MD 20907. Telephone: (800) 358-9295. Web site: www.ahcpr.gov.
• American Academy of Pain Medicine, 4700 W. Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60025. Telephone: (847) 375-4731. Fax: (847) 375-6331. Web site: www. painmed.org.
• American Society of Pain Management Nurses, 7794 Grow Dr., Pensacola, FL 32514. Telephone: (888) 342-7766. Fax: (850) 484-8762. Web site: www.aspmn.org.
• American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 765 Commonwealth Ave., 16th Floor, Boston, MA 02215. Telephone: (617) 262-4990. Fax: (617) 437-7596. Web site: www.aslme.org.
• American Pain Society, 4700 W. Lake Ave., Glenview, IL 60025. Telephone: (847) 375-4715. Fax: (847) 375-4777. Web site: www.ampainsoc. org.
• Compassion In Dying, PMB 415, 6312 S.W. Capitol Hwy., Portland, OR 97201. Telephone: (503) 221-9556. Fax: (503) 228-9160. Web site: www.compassionindying.org. E-mail: info@ compassionindying.org. To request a clinical review for a suspected case of undertreatment of pain, send an e-mail message to tuckk@ perkinscoie. com.
• International Association for the Study of Pain, 909 NE 43rd St., Room 306, Seattle, WA 98105-6021. Telephone: (206) 547-6409.
• Oncology Nursing Society, 501 Holiday Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749. Telephone: (412)921-7373. Web site: www.ons.org.
• Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 3675 Medical Sciences Center, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706. Web site: www.medsch. wisc.edu.
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