Pain management: the global connection.
Understanding pain and the cultural perceptions patients and staff hold about it is crucial to developing a pain management program that complies with Joint Commission requirements.
Smith
Rita
R
Patient Care Services, Pain Management and Palliative Care Committee, Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, N.J., USA.
Curci
Michael
M
Silverman
Allan
A
D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010146:Pain / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D016746:Transcultural Nursing; D014481:United States