title: Performance improvement CME: managing chronic pain.
abstract: Performance Improvement CME (PI CME) is an educational activity in which clinicians retrospectively assess their current clinical practice, choose areas for improvement and implement interventions based on treatment guidelines and health care standards, and then re-evaluate their clinical practice to assess the improvements made. This PI CME activity focuses on improving the safety and efficacy of treating chronic pain with opioid medications.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA.
authors.forename: Scott M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid