A Step Toward a Cultural Transformation in the Way Pain is Perceived, Judged and Treated

The following blog post is the executive summary of the June 29-30, 2015, PAINS Collaborators Meeting in Washington, DC, held in response to Department of Health and Human Services’ publication of the National Pain Strategy Report.  BACKGROUNDIn anticipation of publication of the National Pain Strategy (NPS) Report, in June 2015 the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS), a coalition of national leaders and organizations committed to advancing the sixteen recommendations made in the Institutes of Medicine’s report, Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research, convened a Collaborators Conference in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to discern opportunities and challenges to implementation of the report, to build enthusiasm for it and promote collaboration among attendees in order to move the NPS Report from a vision to a reality. More than 100 prominent leaders from professional societies, academic institutions, federal agencies, patient advocacy groups, and policy organizations met to review the NPS Report and discuss each of its six sections.In April 2015, the NPS Report underwent preliminary review by multiple federal agencies and was then posted in the Federal Register for public commentary. In opening remarks, Walter Koroshetz, Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), told attendees that more than 770 responses were received and...
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