Quality Improvement Process Overview

Pain Quality Improvement Process Overview - How to initiative a pain quality improvement project. Provides an overview of how to use geriatric pain tools in this section.

Advancing Excellence: Improving Pain Management Implementation Guide - Learn how to implement a pain management improvement program.  Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes is an ongoing, coalition-based campaign concerned with how to care for the elderly, chronically ill and disabled, as well as those recuperating in a nursing home environment. 

Institutional Commitment to Pain Management - This document acknowledges the many factors that make pain assessment and management in the long-term care setting challenging.  It details The Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative that has developed a process that can guide an organization through the development of a pain management program.