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Guideline title: Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain Report and Guidelines<\/h4>\n

Publication Status:<\/strong> Active<\/p>\n

Date of publication<\/strong>: 2018<\/p>\n

Date of last evidence search: <\/strong>2018<\/p>\n

Scope:<\/strong> Patient self-management, minimum standards of care, care team, treatment, population health.
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Methods:<\/strong> Current guidelines and literature review and expert consensus<\/p>\n

Description: <\/strong>The goals for collaborative care focused on chronic pain with life activity impacts are improved function, increased quality of life, and greater patient autonomy rather than a primary focus on pain relief. The workgroup aimed to define areas within collaborative care unique to chronic pain with life activity impacts while also developing a system to recognize and limit the transition from acute and subacute pain to chronic pain. Ideally, both acute and chronic pain will be managed and treated over time using a systems approach to allow patients to stay within primary care supported by the minimum standards of collaborative care including: patient identification and population management, a care team, a care management function, basing treatments in evidence-informed care, and patient-centered supported self-management.<\/strong>
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Supporting Materials<\/h4>\n

Letter from the Health Care Authority Accepting the Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain Recommendations<\/span>
\n<\/a>Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain Workgroup Charter and Roster<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Read On-line” tab_id=”1705962509144-9644df23-bb2d”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain Report and Guidelines<\/a><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Resources and Tools” tab_id=”1705962532432-3c9b4a29-3846″][vc_toggle title=”Resources and Tools”]Appendix D: Enhanced Chronic Pain Care Resource Grid \u2013 Health care resources<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington Medical Commission Pain Management Resources\u00a0<\/a>[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Metrics and Evaluation Tools” tab_id=”1705962562329-74dce5de-e7ed”][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

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To support health system improvement the Bree Collaborative has created score cards that are designed to help measure progress on the implementation of our guidelines. These were developed in collaboration with subject matter experts and are aligned across audience types (such as state agencies, health plans, providers, community organizations, employers, etc.)<\/p>\n

To use our score cards, find the audience type, or types, that is closest to your organization or area of improvement work and download the document. There may be more than one \u201caudience\u201d type that is relevant. For example, large health systems may want to track progress at both the organizational level and the individual practitioner level.<\/p>\n

Score cards are also aligned with the Bree Collaboratives\u2019 self-report data collection efforts. Organizations are not required to report, however anyone can submit data to help track system wide progress, measure their progress against others, and to be eligible for implementation awards.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_toggle title=”Primary Care”]Primary care Score Card<\/a>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Health Systems”]System Score Card\u00a0 <\/a>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Health Plans”]Health Plan Score Card_<\/a>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Employers\/Purchasers”]Employer_Score Card<\/a>[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Guideline Metrics”]The work group did not recommend specific metrics, however audience specific evaluation score cards and other prescribing metrics developed by the Bree Collaborative can be useful. These measures can be found on the Washington State Common Measure Set. For all of these measure a decrease is improvement.<\/p>\n