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NIH calls for input on National Pain Strategy draft

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The NIH is soliciting input from physicians, researchers, foundations, patients, caregivers, members of the pharmaceutical industry and others to give feedback on its draft National Pain Strategy, according to a press release.

The draft strategy comes after a 2010 congressional mandate in the Affordable Care Act to address issues related to chronic pain in the public at large. The agency contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to make recommendations “to increase the recognition of pain as a significant public health problem in the United States,” according to the executive summary of the draft.

In 2011, the IOM report recommended the development of “a comprehensive population health-level strategy for pain prevention, treatment, management, education, reimbursement and research that includes specific goals, actions, time frames and resources,” for which the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee was called upon to oversee.

The draft is the result of the intra-agency efforts, and a comment period is open until May 20 at 5 p.m., according to the press release.

Objectives for the strategy include finding ways to coordinate collaboration with public-private partnerships; an agenda for developing physiological, clinical, behavioral and other domains; and to consider outcomes and health services research, improve quality of life and increase public awareness about chronic pain and self-management.

Diagnostic clusters classified for population pain research include osteoarthritis and joint pain, pain related to fibromyalgia, systemic lupus erythematosus and spinal cord and other injures, and back, neck, cancer, chest, pelvic and menstrual and other pain. Six areas of focus were recommended by the IOM, including population research, prevention and care, disparities, service delivery and reimbursement, professional education and training, and public awareness and communication, according to the release.

Comments can be submitted online.

Referenc e: www.iprcc.nih.gov.