New ACP paper reviews performance measures for pain management
Three of six measures on pain management relevant to internal medicine physicians are valid, according to a review by ACP's Performance Measurement Committee.
A review of performance measures designed to evaluate the quality of care for pain found that three of six measures relevant to internal medicine physicians were valid. ACP's findings, detailed in “Quality Indicators for Pain in Adults: A Review of Performance Measures,” were published by Annals of Internal Medicine on Sept. 24. Based on a review by ACP's Performance Measurement Committee, it reports that two of the valid measures assess appropriate opioid use and one evaluates the overuse of imaging for low back pain. The paper also addresses the gap in acute pain management measures by proposing a quality measure concept aligning with a clinical guideline put out by ACP and the American Academy of Family Physicians in January 2020.
More information about ACP's work on performance measures is available online.