TY - JOUR T1 - A multisociety organizational consensus process to define guiding principles for acute perioperative pain management JF - Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine JO - Reg Anesth Pain Med SP - 118 LP - 127 DO - 10.1136/rapm-2021-103083 VL - 47 IS - 2 AU - Edward R Mariano AU - David M Dickerson AU - Joseph W Szokol AU - Michael Harned AU - Jeffrey T Mueller AU - Beverly K Philip AU - Jaime L Baratta AU - Padma Gulur AU - Jennifer Robles AU - Kristopher M Schroeder AU - Karla E K Wyatt AU - Jason M Schwalb AU - Eric S Schwenk AU - Richa Wardhan AU - Todd S Kim AU - Kent K Higdon AU - Deepak G Krishnan AU - Ashley M Shilling AU - Gary Schwartz AU - Lisa Wiechmann AU - Lisa V Doan AU - Nabil M Elkassabany AU - Stephen C Yang AU - Iyabo O Muse AU - Jean D Eloy AU - Vikas Mehta AU - Shalini Shah AU - Rebecca L Johnson AU - Michael J Englesbe AU - Amanda Kallen AU - S Bobby Mukkamala AU - Ashley Walton AU - Asokumar Buvanendran Y1 - 2022/02/01 UR - http://rapm.bmj.com/content/47/2/118.abstract N2 - The US Health and Human Services Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force initiated a public–private partnership which led to the publication of its report in 2019. The report emphasized the need for individualized, multimodal, and multidisciplinary approaches to pain management that decrease the over-reliance on opioids, increase access to care, and promote widespread education on pain and substance use disorders. The Task Force specifically called on specialty organizations to work together to develop evidence-based guidelines. In response to this report’s recommendations, a consortium of 14 professional healthcare societies committed to a 2-year project to advance pain management for the surgical patient and improve opioid safety. The modified Delphi process included two rounds of electronic voting and culminated in a live virtual event in February 2021, during which seven common guiding principles were established for acute perioperative pain management. These principles should help to inform local action and future development of clinical practice recommendations.All data relevant to the study are included in the article. ER -