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HACPM, a resource for health care professionals, addresses the management of pain in patients with cancer. It provides a hypermedia implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline on the Management of Cancer Pain, a publication of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
HACPM provides interactive tools for healthcare providers to assist with managing pain in cancer patients. These tools include a calculator for converting drug dosages, and an interactive dermatome map.
HACPM also provides multimedia instructional tools. These include video clips of pain experts and cancer patients addressing issues regarding pain management in patients with cancer. Also included are animated tutorials on the neurological processes involved in pain.
Besides the AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline, HACPM provides a significant resource for technical information on pain. In particular, the complete text of Current and Emerging Issues in Cancer Pain: Research and Practice, edited by CR Chapman and K Foley (1993, Lipincott-Raven) has recently been made available on the HACPM website. Additional resources will be added as they become available.
A significant value of this resource is its powerful capability for clinical information retrieval. HACPM employs repertory hypergrids, an expert system method for information retrieval, to generate links between related information (knowledge chunks) residing in the document database. These links provide easy access to the information that is most useful for a given interest or immediate need. This should help you find information quickly and efficiently.
To quickly familiarize yourself with all that HACPM has to offer, tour the HACPM website, or
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uideline contents. The complete contents of the AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Cancer Pain. To use the expert guide, locate a topic of interest and follow the "chunks".
ibrary of technical references and documents, including Current Issues in Research on Cancer Pain.
rovider tools include a calculator for converting drug dosages, and an interactive dermatome map.
ultimedia tools for information and instruction provide videos addressing issues in cancer pain management and animated tutorials on physiological processes involved in pain.
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DISCLAIMER: The material in HACPM is intended as an educational resource for healthcare professionals. Patients with pain should not use this information as a substitute for medical evaluation, advice, and/or treatment by a qualified health care professional. Patients and the lay public should consult appropriate health care professionals when interpreting the material offered here.
HACPM was produced by Mathsoft, Data Analysis Products Division through a grant from the National Institutes of Health.
David Madigan, Ph.D. s, C.
Richard Chapman, Ph.D. a
developed the concept. David H. Bradshaw, Ph.D.
a, designed and developed version 3.0, with significant contributions
by Giovanni Marchisio, Ph.D. m,
Thien Nguyen m, Jeffrey Silverman
m, and Ying Zhang s.
Medical consultants for this site are C. Richard Chapman, Ph.D.
a and Jonathan Gavrin, M.D.
b
s Department of
Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. a
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
UT. m Mathsoft, Data Analysis
Products Division, Seattle, WA, b
Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Washinton, Seattle, WA.
Please send comments or suggestions to
dhb11@utah.edu.
