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Pain management clinical resources

Use these tools to help patients manage chronic pain pharmacologically. These recommendations do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations for individual circumstances may be appropriate.

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Pain management
Clinical practice guidelines

The Priority Health guideline on pharmacological management of pain was retired in March, 2011.
Practice management
pdf Management of chronic pain (34KB PDF)
A list of treatment options for different types of pain
Updated 03/2009
pdf Selected nonopioid analgesics: analgesic dosage and comparative efficacy to standards (27KB PDF)
References the effectiveness of nonopioid analgesics
Updated 03/2009
Patient education
pdf Pain management agreement (23KB PDF)
An agreement between physician and patients regarding pain management medication
Updated 03/2009

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Last modified: 8/31/2011
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