No Pain, No Gain? Improving Pain Management in PALTC Using the Newly Revised Clinical Practice Guideline (Archive 11/10/21)

1.0 CME / 1.0 CMD Clinical

This webinar will introduce key features from the newly revised clinical practice guideline (CPG) from AMDA, Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting. Steven Levenson, MD, CMD, and Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, will discuss the updated, more user-friendly format of the CPG; strategies for developing and implementing a systematic approach to pain management; and how using the CPG effectively can help both individual clinicians and entire facilities to improve their pain management practices and outcomes. They will also highlight how the CPG addresses other challenging issues such as the role of opioids in pain management and the differences between treating acute and chronic pain.

AMDA’s Pain Management in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting CPG is supported by a grant from RRF Foundation for Aging.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the webinar, participants should be able to:

• Apply the care delivery process to pain management.
• Discuss prudent practices for ordering opioids and reducing/stopping them.
• Describe common mistakes in assessing and managing pain, and how to avoid them.
• Differentiate between treating acute and chronic pain and adapting pain management to specific situations.

Speaker Information:

Steven Levenson, MD, CMD; Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP

Credit Information:

Activity Created 11/2021

Credits Available Until 11/2024

Credit Statements: 

CME: AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CMD: This self-study activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for a total of 1.0 clinical hours toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. The CMD program is administered by the ABPLM. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

Visit the Continuing Education page for information on if and how you can claim credit/hours for AMDA’s education.

Disclosure Information:

The Society requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Society’s staff.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified, mitigated, and resolved.

All speakers do not have financial relationships to report.

The following AMDA Online Education Committee members have financial relationships to report: Robert Zorowitz, MD, MBA, CMD – United Health Group: Stock Shareholder; all others have no relationships to disclose.

AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.