Publications
Clinical Practical Guidelines
The Board of Directors of APS voted in 1997 to embark upon an ambitious effort to develop and disseminate a series of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the management of complex pain problems to be used by patients, payers, and providers. The Program is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, ongoing effort to develop guidelines and assure their dissemination and implementation. It adheres to state-of-the-art scientific principles of guideline development and evaluation.
To guide this program, APS has established a Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, chaired by Christine Miaskowski, PhD RN, Professor and Chair, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. The committee identifies topics for guideline development, oversees and ensures the validity of the guideline development process, and advises on dissemination issues.
The guidelines program is led by Roger Chou, MD of the Oregon Health & Science University’s Evidence-Based Practice Center. Dr. Chou and his staff work with multidisciplinary expert panels to define guideline scope and key questions, develop evidence reviews, develop recommendations, conduct peer review and finalize guideline recommendations for publication.
Since its inception, APS has published four guidelines and has two guidelines (low back pain and use of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain) in process for publication in 2007.
Guidelines Currently Available:
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2 October 2007, Volume 147 Issue 7 Pages 478-491
- News release, October 2 2007
- Guideline Available Online
Guideline for the Management of Cancer Pain in Adults and Children, 2005
Guideline for the Management of Fibromyalgia Syndrome Pain in Adults and Children, 2005
Guideline for the Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in Sickle-Cell Disease, 1999