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Improving pain care for service members : administrator, provider, and patient perspectives on treatment, policies, and opportunities for change / Kimberly A. Hepner [and 8 others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hepner, Kimberly A., author.
- Roth, Carol Pindar, author.
- Engel, Charles C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Military--United States.
- Medicine, Military.
- Chronic pain--Treatment--United States.
- Chronic pain.
- Pain--Treatment--United States.
- Pain.
- United States--Armed Forces--Medical care.
- United States.
- Other Title:
- Improving Pain Care for Service Members
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2023
- Summary:
- Acute and chronic pain are common among service members, with musculoskeletal pain and injuries being the leading cause of nondeployability among active-duty service members. Given the significant implications for individual health and force readiness, providing high-quality pain care to service members is a priority of the Military Health System (MHS). Prior RAND research used administrative data to assess the quality and safety of pain care and opioid prescribing in the MHS, generated a set of quality measures that the MHS could adopt going forward, and identified strengths and opportunities for improvement in care provided to service members with pain conditions. In this report, authors document findings from interviews with MHS administrators, providers, and patients, providing valuable detail and context for those findings, along with on-the-ground perspectives on MHS pain care policies and guidance in practice. Staff and patients recommended prioritizing increases in treatment access and availability to improve pain care, and patients emphasized effective treatment and patient-centered care as the most important facilitators of high-quality pain care.
- Contents:
- Methods
- Organizational Supports and Models of Care
- Treatment Planning and Treatment Adjustment for Chronic Pain
- Pharmacologic Treatment for Chronic Pain
- Nonpharmacologic Treatment for Chronic Pain
- Facilitators and Barriers to High-Quality Pain Care
- Staff and Patient Recommendations
- Findings and Recommendations.
- Notes:
- Description from electronic resource.
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