Pain Management: Time to Minimize Variations in Practice

Parag Bharadwaj; Brynn E Sheehan; Sunita Dodani; Charles F von Gunten

doi:10.1177/1178224218761350

Pain Management: Time to Minimize Variations in Practice

Palliat Care. 2018 Feb 20:11:1178224218761350. doi: 10.1177/1178224218761350. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Parag Bharadwaj^{1

2}, Brynn E Sheehan^{3

4}, Sunita Dodani^{5

6}, Charles F von Gunten⁷

Affiliations

¹ Palliative Care, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA, USA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
³ Quality Research Institute, Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.
⁵ Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Norfolk, VA, USA.
⁶ EVMS-Sentara Healthcare Analytics and Delivery Science Institute (HADSI), Norfolk, VA, USA.
⁷ Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Ohio Health Kobacker House, Columbus, OH, USA.

Abstract

There continue to be great variations in the management of pain in palliative care. Efforts need to be made within the field develop strategies to address this to avoid undue distress in patients.

Keywords: Pain; palliative care; standardization; variation.