Here’s what you should know.
1. The priorities are part of the Federal Pain Research Strategy, which is overseeing the development of a long-term plan for pain research.
2. NIH developed the strategy in response to a lack of emerging pharmacologic treatments in recent years.
3. The priorities fall into five general areas:
- Drug and non-pharmacological pain treatments
- Enhanced pain continuum screening tools and outcome measures
- Development of national registries, datasets and national networks
- Effective care delivery models
- Refining medicine methodology to prevent pain
4. NIH will redraft the priorities after the comment period, which ends June 6. NIH will release the finalized priorities at a later date.
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