CamBoone
camboone.bsky.social
CamBoone
@camboone.bsky.social
Advocates for Pain Patients, Intractable Pain, Rare Diseases, CRPS & humane, patient centered care regardless of Dx.
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Here are screen shots of a new Ethical Opinion for the AMA Code of Ethics that will expand access to palliative care, including the treatment of pain and suffering for patients with serious, chronic, complex, or critical illness, regardless of prognosis. #HPM #HAPC #PainCareCrisis
November 13, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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BOT Report 18, "Expanding Palliative Care," also adopted at the AMA 2024 Interim Meeting earlier this week.

Note Item 7: AMA "opposes the imposition of criminal and civil penalties or other retaliatory efforts against physicians for… providing palliative care services, including hospice.”
November 14, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Realized I never posted this article on @bsky.app!!

“Providing outpatient palliative care longitudinally over four years offered lasting treatment-related reductions in pain intensity, preservation of performance status, and reduction in overall overdose risk.”

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
Effectiveness of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain in an Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic | Journal of Palliative Medicine
Background: Despite widespread use of opioid therapy in outpatient palliative medicine, there is limited evidence supporting its efficacy and safety in the long term. Objectives: We sought to improve ...
www.liebertpub.com
September 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM