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PRISM™ meets IOM Recommendations!

The brief overview of the IOM 2011 Pain Research report contains summaries of the committee’s findings and recommendations. 

ProCare Research was developed to address these very concerns that have now been published in the report.  Main topics noted in the Report and how the PRISM™ System addresses the concerns are as follows:

  • Data Collection (at regular intervals with standardized questions and protocols)
    • PRISM™ uses validated standardized tools in the research realm to collect data from patients at regular intervals.
  • Data collection to indentify:
  •     Subpopulations at risk
    • PRISM™ uses the Pain Assessment Matrix (PAM) to assess disease risk of patient populations
  •     Characteristics of acute and chronic pain
    • The PRISM™ Pain Health Assessment (PHA) gathers data from patients to collectively learn what makes up a pain population.  Epidemiological papers are currently underway to document the findings of the data to date.
  •     Profound health consequences of pain
    • The PRISM™ Pain Health Assessment (PHA) gathers data from patients to identify how pain is affecting the patient’s entire life, not just the part of the body that hurts.
  •     Related trends over time
    • The PRISM™ Clinical Summary Sheet identifies how the patient’s data is trending from one PHA to the next so that the provider is able to make real-time data informed decisions regarding the patient’s care.
  • Multidisciplinary care should be identified and used for chronic pain treatment.
    • The PRISM™ Clinical Summary Sheet can be used to assess clinical quality measures for determining interdisciplinary care.
  • To improve care, tailor pain care to each person’s experience.
    • The PRISM™ Clinical Summary Sheet can be used to identify how pain is affecting that particular person’s life and high-lights areas of focus for resource utilization.
  • Communication of effective therapies from research into practice.
    • The PRISM™ data will help meet this challenge by utilizing the information for Comparative Effectiveness Research.  The more users that contribute to the data registry, the more information for identifying best practices for the countless combinations of pain diagnoses and co-morbidities.