http://netvouz.com/docalex/tag/standard-of-care?feed=rss docalex's bookmarks tagged "standard-of-care" on Netvouz http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/med-guide-prosecute/260/ "The WHO guidelines were never intended to be used as a prosecutorial tool. The invocation of the WHO “analgesic ladder” concept of progressive pharmacological treatment of pain, in state investigations of physicians, is sometimes unfair. On the one hand the guidelines are interpreted as rules and the physician is faulted for violating in some aspect. On the other hand, state rules and regulations are often at odds with the spirit and specifics of the WHO guidelines..." docalex Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:07:26 GMT http://www.americangeriatrics.org/products/positionpapers/persistent_pain_guide.shtml Persistent Pain Guidelines - AGS Guideline on the Management of Persistent Pain in Older Adults - The AGS Expert Panel on Persistent Pain docalex Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:23:13 GMT