0
August 17, 2011, Vol 306, No. 7 >

Full Content is available to subscribers

Subscribe/Learn More
Medical News and Perspectives | August 17, 2011

Cultural Transformation Needed to Solve Public Health Problem of Chronic Pain

Anita Slomski
JAMA. 2011;306(7):692-693. doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1158.
Text Size: A A A
Published online
Article
Figures

Extract

Yesterday I was lucky; the pain was kind and waited until after I got back home before showing its true colors . . . black and blue. No one sees the colors upon my skin. My pain is internal. It is physical. It is mental.”

This account, from a man describing the ravages of chronic pain on his life, was one of more than 2000 testimonies received by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education from individuals with chronic pain and the clinicians attempting to treat them. The pleas of so many “lent a sense of urgency” to the committee's call for a “cultural transformation” in how the nation understands and approaches pain management in its report issued in June.
Figures in this Article

Sign In to Access Full Content

Don't have Access?

Register and get free email Table of Contents alerts, saved searches, PowerPoint downloads, CME quizzes, and more

Subscribe for full-text access to content from 1998 forward and a host of useful features

Activate your current subscription (AMA members and current subscribers)

Purchase Online Access to this article for 24 hours

First Page Preview

View Large
First page PDF preview

Figures

Place holder to copy figure label and caption

Grahic Jump LocationImage not available.

Chronic pain is vastly undertreated, leaving many patients in an endless quest for relief, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The report urges enhanced continuing education and training to ensure that primary care physicians feel competent treating pain.

Tables

Interactive Graphics

Video

Country-Specific Mortality and Growth Failure in Infancy and Yound Children and Association With Material Stature

Use interactive graphics and maps to view and sort country-specific infant and early dhildhood mortality and growth failure data and their association with maternal

References

Letters

Submit a Letter
CME
Accreditation Information
The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The AMA designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM per course. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Physicians who complete the CME course and score at least 80% correct on the quiz are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.
Note: You must get at least of the answers correct to pass this quiz.
Clear Answers | Save For Later
You have not filled in all the answers to complete this quiz
The following questions were not answered:
Sorry, you have unsuccessfully completed this CME quiz with a score of
The following questions were not answered correctly:
Commitment to Change (optional):
Indicate what change(s) you will implement in your practice, if any, based on this CME course.
Your quiz results:
The filled radio buttons indicate your responses. The preferred responses are highlighted
For CME Course: A Proposed Model for Initial Assessment and Management of Acute Heart Failure Syndromes
Indicate what changes(s) you will implement in your practice, if any, based on this CME course.
NOTE:
Citing articles are presented as examples only. In non-demo SCM6 implementation, integration with CrossRef’s “Cited By” API will populate this tab (http://www.crossref.org/citedby.html).
Compression-Only CPR: Pushing the Science Forward
Cone
AAM 2010;304:1493-1495.
All you need to read in the other general journals
BMJ 2010;341:c5893-c1494.
Submit a Response

Some tools below are only available to our subscribers or users with an online account.

Sign In to Access Full Content

Related Content

Customize your page view by dragging & repositioning the boxes below.

Articles Related By Topic
Related Topics
PubMed Articles
Chronic pain after surgery: time for standardization? A framework to establish core risk factor and outcome domains for epidemiological studies.
Clin J Pain 2013;;29(1):2-8.
Duloxetine versus other anti-depressive agents for depression.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;;10():CD006533.
Jobs

More Listings at
JAMACareerCenter.com >

© 2013 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
Powered bySilverchair Information Systems