Excellent chronic pain guideline

In the PEER simplified chronic pain guideline article published in the March issue of Canadian Family Physician,¹ the authors have created exactly the tool we all need in approaching chronic pain. They take care to consider the perspective of family physicians and the best available evidence. The 10 pages of their guideline are succinct considering the complexity of the topic (and their 2-page summary for less patient readers accurately represents the longer version). This guideline provides me with tools that I will use to share decision making with my patients rather than trying to fit them into a one-size-fits-all formula. My own pain in reading the guideline was 0 out of 10. Well done!

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