The American Pain Foundation TARGET Chronic Pain Initiative: better patient/clinician communication to improve pain management.
The American Pain Foundation has developed a program to improve clinician-chronic pain patient communication. The program includes a card describing a six part evaluation process for clinicians and patient notebook in which important daily information is recorded. The program is described including information on how to obtain the resources.
Rhiner
Michelle
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Supportive Care, Pain and Palliative Medicine, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. mrhiner@coh.org
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000145:classification; D059408:Pain Management; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014481:United States