The management of pain is challenging for providers, added to that the challenges of communicating with patients affected by pain in compassionate, non-stigmatizing ways that facilitate shared decision-making and individualized care. Multimodal approaches that minimize risks and maximize benefits are available, but equitable access and availability is a barrier to effective multimodal pain treatment. Providers need education on individualizing multimodal pain management strategies to develop plans that fit the needs, priorities, and histories of individual patients and populations served.
This CMEO BriefCase entitled, Employing Multi-Modal Pain Management in a Low-Resource Setting, will review start-to-finish patient assessment and plan development for a patient with pain with consideration for their individual barriers to healthcare access.