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Challenges to Teaming for Pain in Primary Care

Better understanding task distribution related to chronic pain assessment and management can help improve team-based pain care.

Aug 23, 2017
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Development and Feasibility of a Structured Goals of Care Communication Guide

Studies demonstrate the benefits of discussing goals of care and advance care planning, yet many patients with serious illness do not engage in such discussions with healthcare providers.

May 30, 2017
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Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Prescription Drug Misuse Among Active-Duty Service Members

This report presents the framework of an analytic tool that can help the military predict future trends in PDM based on current demographics of active-duty service members and rates of injury and prescribing of prescription drugs.

Jan 4, 2017
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Integrative Pain Management Centers in the Military: The Challenges

Integrative medicine might be the appropriate model for pain management in the military; however, the structural and process elements to bring it about are not yet in place or fully understood.

Oct 10, 2016
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Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Chronic pain patients increasingly seek treatment through mindfulness meditation. This study aims to synthesize evidence on efficacy and safety of mindfulness meditation interventions for the treatment of chronic pain in adults.

Oct 7, 2016
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Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review

RAND researchers conducted a systematic review that synthesized evidence from trials of mindfulness meditation interventions to provide estimates of their efficacy and safety in alleviating chronic pain.

Oct 4, 2016
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Factors Associated with Family Reports of Pain, Dyspnea, and Depression in the Last Year of Life

Family reports of patients' experiences with pain, difficult breathing, and depression near the end of life suggest strategies at the clinical and population level for assessing and managing symptoms.

Aug 23, 2016
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Longitudinal Associations Among Pain, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, and Stress Appraisals

Comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and pain is well documented, but the mechanisms underlying their comorbidity are not well understood.

Mar 2, 2016
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Out-of-pocket Expenditures on Complementary Health Approaches Associated with Painful Health Conditions in a Nationally Representative Adult Sample

National surveys suggest that millions of adults in the United States use complementary health approaches such as acupuncture, chiropractic manipulation, and herbal medicines to manage painful conditions such as arthritis, back pain and fibromyalgia.

Sep 14, 2015
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A Scalable Web-Based Module for Improving Surgical and Medical Practitioner Knowledge and Attitudes About Palliative and End-of-Life Care

We built a web-based, interactive, self-directed learning module about end-of-life care.

Jul 16, 2015
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Factors Associated with Palliative Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation and Time to Death After Withdrawal

In imminently dying patients, mechanical ventilation withdrawal is often a comfort measure and avoids prolonging the dying process.

Apr 29, 2015
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Impact of Consideration of Transplantation on End-of-Life Care for Patients During a Terminal Hospitalization

Many patients considered for transplantation die before receiving the organ, underlining the importance of providing high-quality symptomatic relief and communication for all transplant patients.

Apr 29, 2015
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Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome Flares and Their Impact: Qualitative Analysis in the MAPP Network

The authors conducted eight focus groups of female UCPPS (interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome) patients at four sites from the MAPP Research Network to explore the full spectrum of flares and their impact on patients' lives.

Apr 7, 2015
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Symptom Trends in the Last Year of Life from 1998 to 2010: A Cohort Study

The authors describe changes in pain intensity and symptom prevalence during the last year of life from 1998 to 2010.

Feb 11, 2015
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Comparison of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with Conventional Mind–body Therapies for Chronic Back Pain: Protocol for the Mind–body Approaches to Pain (MAP) Randomized Controlled Trial

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which addresses psychosocial factors, has been found to be effective for back pain, but access to qualified therapists is limited. Another treatment option with potential for addressing psychosocial issues, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), is increasingly available.

Jun 1, 2014
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Yoga Vs. Physical Therapy Vs. Education for Chronic Low Back Pain in Predominantly Minority Populations: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Several randomized controlled trials show yoga is an effective treatment. However, the comparative effectiveness of yoga and physical therapy, a common mainstream treatment for chronic low back pain, is unknown.

Feb 1, 2014
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Symptom Persistence in a Community Cohort of Women with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS): 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-Month Follow-Up from the RICE Cohort

The purpose of this study was to determine whether symptoms persist among a population-based sample of women.

Jan 1, 2014
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Opioid Prescribing: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of Guidelines for Chronic Pain

Despite limited evidence and variable development methods, recent guidelines on chronic pain agree on several opioid risk mitigation strategies, including upper dosing thresholds; cautions with certain medications; attention to drug–drug and drug–disease interactions; and use of risk assessment tools, treatment agreements, and urine drug testing.

Jan 1, 2014
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The Prevalence and Overlap of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome and Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome in Men: Results of the RAND Interstitial Cystitis Epidemiology Male Study

As part of the RICE (RAND Interstitial Cystitis Epidemiology) study, we developed validated case definitions to identify interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome in women and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men.

Jan 1, 2013
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Effects of Pain and Prescription Opioid Use on Outcomes in a Collaborative Care Intervention for Anxiety

Anxious patients with pain benefit as much as those without pain from cognitive-behavioral therapy and medication treatment.

Jan 1, 2013

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RAND Topic:
Pain Management

Topic Synonyms:
Pain Relief

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