Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain

Report and Recommendations from the Bree Collaborative

Treatment of pain varies widely between systems and clinicians with high financial and human cost. Moving to a collaborative or team-based approach to managing complex pain has been shown to result in better patient outcomes.

However, most approaches to pain management including chronic opioid therapy involved siloed health care providers. This workgroup met from January 2018 to January 2019 and defined minimum standards for:

  • Patient identification and population management
  • A care team
  • A care management function
  • Basing treatments in evidence
  • Patient-centered supported self-management

Audience

Care Managers Nurses Primary Care Provider (Physician, ARNP, or PA) Psychologist/Mental Health/Psychiatrists

Practice type

Behavioral Health Primary Care

Resource type

Tools Training Module

Practice transformation

Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Opioid Use Team Based Care Quality Improvement Practice Organization Population Health Electronic Health Records

Publication date

Sponsoring organization

Bree Collaborative

Policy and reference

Business Model Evidence Health Care Delivery Reform

Implementation

Practice Assessments Strategies