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Post Pain teams vs. palliative care teams
Author: Sandy
Date: Oct 26, 2010 9:05 am
Is it typical for palliative care teams to also see routine pain consults in patients with no serious or critical illness (for example: chronic back pain or acute post-operative pain)? We are in the process of expanding our program and we have no pain management support. We also have limited resources and don't want to limit our time with patients with complex needs/serious illness by having to also take care of acute pain issues in the hospital. What are other programs doing?
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Re:Pain teams vs. palliative care teams (by barton_bobb on 10/27/2010)
My understanding is that it is not typical. Especially if you are early in the process of expanding your program and don't have the manpower to do so. I believe it is better to define your roles/responsibilities very narrowly and to do them well than to try to spread yourselves too thin. You can always expand in the future.

At our program (VCU/Massey), we do cover all pain consults as well as palliative care consults throughout our institution, but we have the manpower & mandate to do so. (In fact, my position was largely born out of the need to be able to cover all pain consults to improve pain management throughout our institution.) Hope this helps.

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