NIH's Helping to End Addiction Long-termSM Initiative (NIH HEAL Initiative) Clinical Pain Management Common Data Element Program
The Helping to End Addiction Long-termSM Initiative (NIH HEAL InitiativeSM) is an aggressive trans-NIH effort to speed solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis, including through improved pain management. Toward this end, the NIH HEAL Initiative launched a common data element (CDE) program to ensure that NIH-funded clinical pain research studies would collect data in a standardized way.NIH HEAL Initiative staff launched a process to determine which pain-related core domains should be assessed by every clinical pain study and what questionnaires are required to ensure that the data is collected uniformly.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Laura Dover Wandner, Anthony F. Domenichiello, Jennifer Beierlein, Leah Pogorzala, Guadalupe Aquino, Andrew Siddons, Linda Porter, Jane Atkinson, NIH Pain Consortium Institute Center Representatives Tags: Focus Article Source Type: research
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