Pain Management Services

The Six Essentials Elements of Good Pain Care

• Educate Veterans/families to promote self-efficacy and shared decision making; provide access to all relevant resources.
• Educate/train all team members to their discipline specific competencies, including team-based care .
• Develop and integrate non-pharmacological modalities into care plans.
• Institute evidence-based medication prescribing, use of pain procedures and safe opioid use (universal precautions).
• Implement approaches for bringing the Veteran’s whole team together such as virtual pain consulting (SCAN-ECHO, e-consults, tele-health, clinical video tele-consultation and education) and for maintaining-ongoing communication between team members.
• Establish metrics to monitor pain care and outcomes at both the individual level and the population level.