Prioritizing pain management in patient care: Has the time come for a new approach?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 15-17

  Rich, Ben A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALPRACTICE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SIDE EFFECT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034829789     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2001.09.1038     Document Type: Editorial

References (4)

1. Undertreatment of medical inpatients with narcotic analgesics
2. In search of a new ethic for treating patients with chronic pain: What can medical boards do?
3. The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine
4. Addiction rare in patients treated with narcotics