title: Pain management: the global connection.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Patient Care Services, Pain Management and Palliative Care Committee, Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, N.J., USA.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Curci
authors.forename: Allan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: 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