Many nursing home residents have a fairly pain-free experience until the end of life, but at least a third suffer persistent, significant pain during their last six months, according to a new study from the University of Manitoba, University of...
In March, an influential group of medical providers, AMDA — The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, will tackle the issue at its annual conference. Cari Levy, the group’s vice president, will offer a “Marijuana 101” lesson on the...
Pain should be removed as a "fifth vital sign" and management of pain should not be used in official quality measures, delegates testified Sunday at the American Medical Association's (AMA) annual meeting here.
Full Set of Clinical Practice Guidelines (20) + 7 Pocket Guides / includes the following individual CPGs: Acute Change of Condition Altered Nutritional Status Anemia COPD Management + Pocket Guide Dehydration and Fluid Maintenance Dementia...
Columbia, MD – AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine recently submitted 22 Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) Implementation Measures to the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) database. Quality...
This implementation manual delineates a systematic, well-planned implementation process for implementing the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). It is designed to assist physicians, nurses and advanced practitioners to support...
This package includes the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline, and the Pain Management Pocket Guide. The CPG provides a foundation for a systematic approach to the recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring of pain in PALTC care...
Resolution A98 Becomes Policy March 1998 AMDA resolves to work to promulgate clinical practice guidelines for pain control in long term care; and through the AMDA Foundation support education and research in pain management in long term...
Policy F-13 THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that AMDA—Dedicated to Long Term Care Medicine and its state affiliate chapters support and work with appropriate parties towards creating an exemption for physicians prescribing pain medication in...
