This course is targeted to physicians, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, pain specialists, dentists and other healthcare providers who treat patients in pain.
This interactive, evidence-based course examines the best practices for treating patients experiencing pain and reviews the guidelines for assessing patients, developing a comprehensive treatment plan, using first-line therapies, initiating an opioid trial and regimen, monitoring patients and managing the risk of opioid abuse, overdose, and diversion. This course also educates learners on how to treat worker populations and pregnant women who struggle with chronic pain or substance use disorder.
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
The planners and faculty have no financial relationships to report in the last 24 months with an ineligible company with the following exception:
Workers Compensation Research Institute - Advisory Committee Member - Relationship Has Not Ended
Kathryn L. Mueller, MD has disclosed a financial relationship with an ineligible company in the last 24 months:
This activity is jointly provided by the Center for Health, Work & Environment, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado College of Nursing and the Colorado Medical Society.
NOTE: Only ONE type of CE credit may be claimed.
5/7/2021
This CME/CPE/CNE activity is funded through an unrestricted educational grant from Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and sponsored by the NIOSH Mountain and Plains ERC and the Harold Hollis fund. The content was developed independently by the contributing faculty and experts and has undergone peer review by the chairperson. All materials appear with permission of the author(s). The opinions expressed are those of the faculty and are not to be construed as those of the publisher or grantor.