Person with Pain and Caregivers
Patient safety is one of the nation’s most pressing health care challenges, directly affecting people living with a variety of acute and chronic pain conditions. Although pain management therapies can provide significant benefits by reducing pain and suffering, improving physical function and restoring one’s quality of life, they can also result in unintended or undesirable effects, from minor to life-threatening. The reality is that no single treatment option for pain management is without risk, and that also includes the decision not to treat the pain. But these risks can be managed by educating and empowering consumers about the responsibility of each person in the safe use of treatments to minimize risk and improve access to quality pain care.
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