- Describe your topic.
- Treatment of Painful Peripheral Neuropathy Please see attachment for key questions and PICO.
- Describe why this topic is important.
- Pain related to a lesion or disease of the peripheral nervous system is very common and can have significant detrimental impact on patients’ quality of life and functional status.
- Tell us why you are suggesting this topic.
- We would like to develop a guideline on this topic.
- Target Date.
- Describe what you are doing currently and what you are hoping will change because of a new evidence report.
- Neuropathic pain is usually conceptualized and treated differently than nocioceptive pain because the pathophysiology of the conditions differ, and the treatments to which they respond may be different. As with any treatment of a chronic condition, it is especially important for providers’ and patients to understand both the benefits and long-term harms since treatment may be ongoing for many months to years.
- How will you or your group use the information from a new evidence report?
- We would use it to develop a guideline.
- How would you or your group plan to disseminate information from the report? Who would you plan to disseminate it to?
- We would work with the authors of the evidence report to publish a summary evidence report alongside of our guideline in a peer-reviewed journal. The guideline would also be disseminated via our guidelines app, presentation at our annual internal medicine meeting, and inclusion in guideline databases.
- Do you know of organizations that could use an evidence report to change clinical practice? Are you a part of, or have you been in contact with, any organizations that might implement the research findings of an evidence report?
- American Academy of Family Physicians frequently endorses our guidelines, and we occasionally partner on developing joint guidelines with them.
- Information About You: (optional)
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- Provide a description of your role or perspective.
- Professional Society (American College of Physicians)
- If you are you making a suggestion on behalf of an organization, please state the name of the organization.
- American College of Physicians
- Please tell us how you heard about the Effective Health Care Program.
- Ongoing relationship
