ECHO Telementoring for Pain, Palliative Care, and Opioid Management: Progress, Challenges, and Future Goals

Authors

Joanna G. Katzman, Department Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Project ECHO, ECHO Institute, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2020

Abstract

The article in this issue of Pain Medicine by Flynn et al., “Pain Management Telementoring, Long-term Opioid Prescribing, and Patient-Reported Outcomes,” demonstrates patient-level reductions in opioid doses in patients whose clinicians actively participate in pain telementoring as compared with patients whose clinicians participate in pain telementoring at a low level. These outcome data reflect the growing body of evidence that telementoring may improve opioid prescribing and pain management practices.

Recommended Citation

Joanna G Katzman, MD, MSPH, ECHO Telementoring for Pain, Palliative Care, and Opioid Management: Progress, Challenges, and Future Goals, Pain Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 220–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz337