title: Improving pain management in your health care organization.
abstract: Health care providers must take a systematic approach to improving the quality of pain management. Doing so enables institutions to relieve patient suffering, improve clinical outcomes, lower costs, and meet accreditation standards. The article describes the essential steps that providers should follow when planning this process and reports the progress of one health care system in this regard.
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care