Teaching Pain Management in Serious Illness in the Era of the Opioid Epidemic: A Team-Based Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the prevalence of pain in patients with serious illness, recent guidelines for opioid prescribing practices have largely excluded palliative care patients. In lieu of such guidelines, many have recommended adapting risk mitigation strategies from the chronic pain arena for palliative care and oncology populations. Teaching interventions are needed to demonstrate how these methods can be applied to patients with serious illness.

Methods

We developed a teaching intervention for fourth-year medical students to improve knowledge about safe opioid prescribing practices in palliative care patients and emphasized both effective and safe pain management. A secondary aim of the intervention was to demonstrate how a palliative care interdisciplinary team works tog

SUBMITTER: Sagin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7597940 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature