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Guidelines
"Ten Guidelines
for Assessing and Treating Pain" (PDF)
"Ten
Guidelines for Assessing and Treating Pain" (HTML)
The American Pain Society has produced clinical practice guidelines for cancer-related pain in adults and children; fibromyalgia; arthritis, and sickle cell disease.
Arthritis Pain
Guideline for the Management of Pain in Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile Chronic Arthritis may be ordered from the American Pain Society
Cancer Pain
Guideline for the Management of Cancer Pain in Adults and Children may be ordered from the American Pain Society
NCCN Cancer Pain Treatment Guidelines
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is a consortium of major US cancer centers. One of their most important roles is to develop and distribute evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and related symptoms and side effects. Current Guidelines include Adult Cancer Pain, Pediatric Cancer Pain, and Palliative Care.NCCN Cancer Pain Treatment Guidelines for Patients
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Cancer Society developed this patient version of the same guidelines that are used by the prestigious cancer centers that are members of the NCCN. The guidelines are also available in booklet form from the American Cancer Society. The Guidelines are also available in Spanish: El dolor asociado con el cáncer Guías de tratamiento para los pacientes.
Fibromyalgia
Guideline for the Management of Fibromyalgia Syndrome Pain in Adults and Children may be ordered from the American Pain Society.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
The National Guideline Clearinghouse
(NGC) is a service of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), formerly known as the
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. The NGC contains a wealth of guidelines
from many sources. Entering a search term such as "pain" will return
many potential resources.
Pediatric Pain/Pain in Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics has several pain-related guidelines or policy statements:
- The Assessment and Management of Acute Pain in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
- Prevention and Management of Pain and Stress in the Neonate
- Palliative Care for Children
- Circumcision Policy Statement
Pain Assessment in the Nonverbal Patient: Position Statement with Clinical Practice Recommendations (American Society for Pain Management Nursing)
Pain in Critical Care
Clinical
practice guidelines for the sustained use of sedatives and analgesics in the
critically ill adult (2002). Critical Care Medicine. 2002; 30(3):119-141.
Full text is available at MGH-networked computers via Magic
and OVID.
Pain in Elders
The American Geriatrics Society has several pain-related guidelines or policy statements:
Pain Assessment in the Nonverbal Patient: Position Statement with Clinical Practice Recommendations (American Society for Pain Management Nursing)
- Exercise for Older Adults with Osteoarthritis Pain
- The AGS Guideline on the Management of Persistent Pain in Older Persons
- Position Statement: The Care of Dying Patients
Sickle Cell Pain
Guideline for the Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in Sickle-Cell Disease may be ordered from the American
Pain Society.
This page last updated 26 February 2007