title: Hospitals and clinicians confront a new imperative: pain management.
abstract: Treating patients' pain is a new priority for health care providers, spurred by research that dramatically demonstrates the impact pain has on illness and recovery and by pressure from the Joint Commission and patient advocates. Hospitals are confronting the newfound knowledge head-on, setting up pain management programs that offer clinical, rehabilitative and counseling help utilizing traditional and nontraditional methods.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Haugh
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008007:Licensure, Medical; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D010820:Physicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States