Pain as the fifth vital sign: Exposing the vital need for pain education

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1728-1732

  Morone, Natalia E ^a,b   Weiner, Debra K ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NOTE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; VITAL SIGN;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84887996648     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. J.N. Campbell APS 1995 Presidential Address Pain Forum 5 1996 85 88
2. Pain as the 5th Vital Sign Toolkit. 2000. http://www.va.gov/ painmanagement/docs/toolkit.pdf. Accessed July 23, 2013.
3. Institute of Medicine Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research 2011 National Academies Press Washington, DC
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vital signs: overdose of prescription opioid pain relievers - United States 1999-2008 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 60 2011 1487 1492
5. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Office of Applied Studies The DAWN Report: Trends in Emergency Department Visits Involving Nonmedical Use of Narcotic Pain Relievers 2010 US Dept of Health and Human Services Rockville, MD June 18
6. D.K. Weiner, G.H. Turner, J.G. Hennon, S. Perera, and S. Hartmann The state of chronic pain education in geriatric medicine fellowship training programs: results of a national survey J Am Geriatr Soc 53 2005 1798 17805
7. D. Cayea, S. Perera, and D.K. Weiner Chronic low back pain in older adults: what physicians know, what they think they know, and what they should be taught J Am Geriatr Soc 54 2006 1772 1777
8. L. Mezei, and B.B. Murinson Pain education in North American medical schools J Pain 12 2011 1199 1208
9. B.I. Martin, R.A. Deyo, and S.K. Mirza Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems JAMA 299 2008 656 664
10. M.P. Jensen, P. Karoly, and S. Braver The measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparison of six methods Pain 27 1986 117 126
11. C.S. Cleeland Measurement of pain by subjective report C.R. Chapman, J.D. Loeser, Issues in Pain Management 1989 Raven Press New York, NY 391 403
12. R. Melzack The short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire Pain 30 1987 191 197
13. H.M. Wittink, W.H. Rogers, and A.G. Lipman Older and younger adults in pain management programs in the United States: differences and similarities Pain Med 7 2006 151 163
14. N.E. Morone, B.L. Rollman, C.G. Moore, Q. Li, and D.K. Weiner A mind-body program for older adults with chronic low back pain: results of a pilot study Pain Med 10 2009 1395 1407
15. D.K. Weiner, S. Perera, T.E. Rudy, R.M. Glick, S. Shenoy, and A. Delitto Efficacy of percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and therapeutic exercise for older adults with chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial Pain 140 2008 344 357
16. D.K. Weiner, T.E. Rudy, Y.S. Kim, and S. Golla Do medical factors predict disability in older adults with persistent low back pain? Pain 112 2004 214 220
17. D.K. Weiner, C.L. Haggerty, and S.B. Kritchevsky How does low back pain impact physical function in independent, well-functioning older adults? evidence from the Health ABC Cohort and implications for the future Pain Med 4 2003 311 320
18. J.M. Cloyd, F.L. Acosta Jr, and C.P. Ames Complications and outcomes of lumbar spine surgery in elderly people: a review of the literature 56 2008 1318 1327
19. R.A. Deyo, S.K. Mirza, B.I. Martin, W. Kreuter, D.C. Goodman, and J.G. Jarvik Trends, major medical complications, and charges associated with surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis in older adults JAMA 303 2010 1259 1265
20. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. American Geriatrics Society updated Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. http://www.guideline.gov/content.aspx?id=37706. Accessed July 22, 2013.
21. D.K. Weiner, J.T. Hanlon, and S.A. Studenski Effects of central nervous system polypharmacy on falls liability in community-dwelling elderly Gerontology 44 1998 217 221
22. R.I. Shorr, M.R. Griffin, J.R. Daugherty, and W.A. Ray Opioid analgesics and the risk of hip fracture in the elderly: codeine and propoxyphene J Gerontol 47 1992 M111 M115
23. B. Abrahamsen, and K. Brixen Mapping the prescriptiome to fractures in men: a national analysis of prescription history and fracture risk Osteoporos Int 20 2009 585 597
24. D.K. Weiner, and K.E. Schmader Postherpetic pain: more than sensory neuralgia? Pain Med 7 2006 243 250
25. D.K. Weiner, S. Sakamoto, S. Perera, and P. Breuer Chronic low back pain in older adults: prevalence, reliability, and validity of physical examination findings J Am Geriatr Soc 54 2006 11 20