National meeting offers pain strategies

The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics in Boston and St. John’s Health System in St. Louis will co-sponsor a national meeting, Taking Responsibility for Effective Pain Management: Professional, Institutional, and Legal Strategies, Nov. 14-15, 1997, in Springfield-Branson, MO. Meeting topics will include:

• support resources for institutions committed to improving the treatment of pain;

• promoting pain relief in the institution;

• pain assessment;

• payment for pain relief;

• legal and regulatory issues;

• special session on pediatric pain;

• cancer pain;

• pain in nursing homes;

• national movement to improve pain relief;

• new standards for opioid use in the treat- ment of chronic pain.

Contact: American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 765 Commonwealth Ave., 16th floor, Boston, MA 02215. Telephone: (617) 262-4990. E-mail: aslme@ bu.edu. World Wide Web: http://www.alsme.org.