For Health Professionals, University of Michigan Health System

Clinical Care Guidelines
Managing Patients with Chronic Non-Terminal Pain

1) Pain Guideline

2) Patient Education Materials:
- Chronic Pain

3) Cover Memo/Key Points:
- What's New -- Cover Memo

4) CME Self-Study Activity:
- http://cme.med.umich.edu/iCME/pain/default.asp

5) Tools for Clinicians:
- Clinic policy: patients on long-term controlled substances
- Discontinuing opioids
- Oral opioid dosing equivalents and conversions
- Ordering and interpreting urine drug tests
- Oswestry Low Back Pain Scale
- Outline for Initial Evaluation of Chronic Pain
- Outline for Follow-Up Evaluation of Chronic Pain
- Pain Disability Index
- Pain Management Questionnaire
- Patient-Provider Agreement for Controlled Substance Medication

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Last update 6/4/09

For Health Professionals, University of Michigan Health System