lunes, 14 de junio de 2010

Management of Opioid Therapy (OT) for Chronic Pain - VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines




Management of Opioid Therapy (OT) for Chronic Pain

The guideline describes the critical decision points in the Management of Opioid Therapy (OT) for Chronic Pain and provides clear and comprehensive evidence based recommendations incorporating current information and practices for practitioners throughout the DoD and VA Health Care systems. The workgroup consensus statements are provided to minimize harm and increase patient safety in patients requiring opioid therapy.


The guideline is formatted as a single algorithm with annotations.


OT Full Guideline (1,334 KB, PDF) 159 pages
http://www.healthquality.va.gov/cot/cot_310_full.pdf

OT Summary (916 KB, PDF) 74 pages
http://www.healthquality.va.gov/cot/cot_310_sum.pdf

Management of Opioid Therapy (OT) for Chronic Pain - VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines

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