General goal:
To position pain as a mainstay of hospital pharmacy with the aim of improving the care provided to the patient and involving hospital pharmacists more directly in the management of pain.
Specific goals:
- To make hospital pharmacists realize the importance of a sound understanding of pain management
- To provide hospital pharmacists and pharmacy residents with continuous training on pain management.
- To sponsor training activities on pain management targeted at other professionals, both from healthcare and community institutions (nursing homes, health centers, day centers, etc.)
- To involve patients in the management of their pain with the aim of improving their quality of life.
- To design clinical guidelines and protocols for different types of pain and different patient groups.
- To promote research into pain management.
- To integrate hospital pharmacists in hospitals’ pain units and committees.
- To ensure that the different scientific societies affected work together to provide patients with a unified approach.