Incentive Grants for Serving Patients with Pain Management
Click here to download an application >>
Application Deadline: December 15, 2008
The APhA Foundation will award grants in the amount of $1,000 for projects to be initiated to support a pain management practice model in ambulatory care practice settings that improves patient care and treatment. The project may include patient education, screening, wellness and/or support services in an effort to address the spectrum of patient and provider needs when focusing on pain management. These incentive grants provide seed money to help pharmacists initiate a 12-month innovative practice project or to support an already existing project within one’s practice that focuses on serving patients with pain management.
The Incentive Grants program is intended to focus pharmacists’ attention on the need to re-engineer their practices along lines that incorporate more specific patient-centered services and enhance health care delivery with the use of today’s technology. The project proposal should concentrate on a new, innovative patient care service in the area of pain management that is of significance to ambulatory pharmacy care settings and that can be evaluated for its relevance.
The Incentive Grants for serving patients with pain management will look to fund projects that accomplish any or all of the following:
- Identify and improve care of patients who may have been inappropriately managed for referral to physicians (or pain specialists) for complete assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
- Establish a pain management practice model in ambulatory care practice settings that improves patient care and treatment. The project can include screening, wellness and support services in an effort to address the spectrum of patient and provider needs.
- Innovative strategies that incorporate pain management activities within community pharmacy setting.
- Demonstrate that pain management services/activities enable patients to be more informed, involved, and in control of their health resulting in improved persistence and compliance with therapy.
- Implement community education and awareness programs in partnership with the state pain initiatives or other patient advocacy groups.
- Establish effective monitoring, management and feedback processes within the collaborative treatment of patients in pain and utilize the pharmacist-physician interaction to optimize therapeutic treatment.
- Establish services that provide medication management, patient education support, and/or alleviate misperceptions of patients with pain (especially persistent pain) and their caregivers.
These incentive grants are made possible with support by Purdue Pharma.
Incentive Grants
