Adapted Clinical Guidelines
Adapting Your Practice: Recommendations for the Care of Homeless Adults with Chronic Non-Malignant Pain (2011) | HCH Clinicians’ Network | The recommendations in this document specify what experienced clinicians know works best for patients experiencing homelessness, with the realistic understanding that limited resources, fragmented health care delivery systems, and loss to follow-up often compromise adherence to optimal clinical practices. These recommendations provide helpful guidance to health care professionals serving adults with chronic non-malignant pain who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and that will contribute to improvements in both quality of care and quality of life for these patients.
Additional Resources
- Managing Chronic Pain in Patients Who Are Homeless: Results from a Survey of Homeless Health Care Clinicians (2012) | This poster presentation examines current practices, available resources, attitudes, and perceived needs of clinicians in providing chronic pain management for homeless patients in health care for the homeless settings. Complete survey results provided in the below resource “Pain Management Survey of Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians: Summary of Results.”
- Pain Management Survey of Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians: Summary of Results (2011) | In a direct response to clinical priorities expressed by the HCH Clinician’s Network, the Network Steering Committee surveyed HCH clinicians across the country regarding chronic pain management practices, knowledge, attitudes, and resources.
- Multidisciplinary Pain Programs for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain: Technical Brief No. 8 (2011) | Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services