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Purpose

Purpose

To ensure that analgesia is optimised, and that the appropriate assessment of risk factors is completed and documented to identify the need for specific risk-modification strategies.

Purpose

To ensure the impact of acute pain on the patient’s function is considered together with pain scores, to guide the appropriate choice of analgesia.

Purpose

To inform patients, and their family or carer, about the potential benefits and harms of acute pain treatment options so that they can participate in decision-making about their treatment with their clinician. This may or may not include opioid analgesics.

Endorsements

The Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard was endorsed by the following organisations in 2022:

This was submitted last year but somehow not published
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