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Relieving Pain in America - A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research (Paperback)
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Relieving Pain in America - A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research (Paperback)
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Chronic pain costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in
medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act required the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) to enlist the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) in examining pain as a public health problem. In this report,
the IOM offers a blueprint for action in transforming prevention,
care, education, and research, with the goal of providing relief
for people with pain in America. To reach the vast multitude of
people with various types of pain, the nation must adopt a
population-level prevention and management strategy. The IOM
recommends that HHS develop a comprehensive plan with specific
goals, actions, and timeframes. Better data are needed to help
shape efforts, especially on the groups of people currently
underdiagnosed and undertreated, and the IOM encourages federal and
state agencies and private organizations to accelerate the
collection of data on pain incidence, prevalence, and treatments.
Because pain varies from patient to patient, healthcare providers
should increasingly aim at tailoring pain care to each person's
experience, and self-management of pain should be promoted. In
addition, because there are major gaps in knowledge about pain
across health care and society alike, the IOM recommends that
federal agencies and other stakeholders redesign education programs
to bridge these gaps. Pain is a major driver for visits to
physicians, a major reason for taking medications, a major cause of
disability, and a key factor in quality of life and productivity.
Given the burden of pain in human lives, dollars, and social
consequences, relieving pain should be a national priority.
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