Jim Ducharme, MD, CM, FRCP, is editor in chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, clinical professor of medicine at McMaster University, and chief medical officer of McKesson Canada.
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ACEP Now: Vol 33 – No 01 – January 2014Pages: 1 2 3 | Single Page
2 Responses to “The Role of Emergency Physicians in Caring for Patients with Chronic Pain”
January 26, 2014
jabenmJim
Very nicely done.
I never had the chance to thank you for weighing in on the ED pain management algorhythm I sent to Mel last year.
Mark
February 15, 2014
eleventy“In chronic-pain patients who have been properly screened for addiction risk using the Opioid Risk Tool (see Table 1), the risk of addiction for those who are scored at low risk is less than 0.2 percent”
That .2% is a great stat! Does anyone know where exactly it comes from?