Importance Primary care clinicians find managing chronic pain challenging. Evidence of
long-term efficacy of opioids for chronic pain is limited. Opioid use is associated with serious …

Low back pain (LBP) is one of the major disabling health conditions among older adults
aged 60 years or older. While most causes of LBP among older adults are non-specific and …

This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those
prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for …

While much of the social and political attention surrounding the nationwide opioid epidemic
has focused on the dramatic increase in overdose deaths among white, middle-class …

The Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 was formed in April 2020 to provide
evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery …

The opioid crisis that exists today developed over the past 30 years. The reasons for this are
many. Good intentions to improve pain and suffering led to increased prescribing of opioids …

EI n behalf on the Institute of Medicine and my colleagues on the committee, I would like to
outline the major find-ings and recommendations of our report, Un-equal Treatment …

Abstract Background. The recent Institute of Medicine Report assessing the state of pain
care in the United States acknowledged the lack of consistent data to describe the nature …

Objectives. Racial/ethnic disparities in health in the US have been well described. The field
of “cultural competence” has emerged as one strategy to address these disparities. Based …

The purpose of our review is to evaluate critically the recent literature on racial and ethnic
disparities in pain and to determine how far we have come toward reducing and eliminating …