AHRQ Toolkit for Chronic Pain Management in Primary Care

The Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) recently updated their toolkit to help primary care providers manage patients who use opioids to treat chronic pain.  The new Self-Service How To Guide adds an important component to AHRQ’s Six Building Blocks opioid treatment toolkit, a structured, systems-based approach to improving management of patients who use long-term opioid therapy.