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Donald M. Phillips

JAMA. 2000;284:428-429.

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Chicago—Excuses for inadequate pain control appear to have run their course and will no longer be accepted because poor pain control is unethical, clinically unsound, and economically wasteful.

This was the prevailing notion underlying the spring Leadership Summit on Pain Management sponsored by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the American Pain Society (APS). The second such meeting will be held this week in Los Angeles.

Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, president of the JCAHO, said that appropriate pain management is good medicine because it results in quicker clinical recovery, shorter hospital stays, fewer readmissions, and improved quality of life, leading to increased productivity. He said that the "mystique of pain"—the long-held notion that because pain is subjective it eludes objective measurement—has given way to evidence-based medicine as newer methods of assessing and controlling pain have emerged.

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