Best Practices
The VHA's National Pain Management Strategy: Implementing the Stepped Care Model
Updates in Specialty Care
Fed Pract. 2011 August;28(8):39
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Patricia H. Rosenberger, PhD; Errol J. Philip, PhD; Allison Lee, BA; and Robert D. Kerns, PhD.
Dr. Rosenberger is a research psychologist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Philip is a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and Ms. Lee is a research assistant at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Kerns is the national program director for pain management at the VA Central Office in West Haven, Connecticut; the director of the Pain Research, Information, Medical Comorbodities, and Education (PRIME) Center at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System; and a professor at Yalue University School of Medicine.
Pain is one of the symptoms most frequently reported by veterans receiving care in VHA facilities.