Teaching Pain Management in Serious Illness in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic: A Team-Based Intervention

• Main Authors: Alana Sagin (Author), Sharon M. Kimberly (Author), Jill P. Farabelli (Author), Kava Schafer (Author), Pallavi Kumar (Author), Tanya J. Uritsky (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Despite the prevalence of pain in patients with serious illness, recent guidelines for opioid prescribing practices have largely excluded palliative care patients. In lieu of such guidelines, many have recommended adapting risk mitigation strategies from the chronic pain arena for palli...