JCAHO Pain Standards: Impact on Practice

In January 2001 the Joint Commission on the Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) added two new
pain-related standards and explicitly included pain in
several existing standards. In this article I will describe
the new standards and their implications for professional
practice.

http://www.massgeneral.org/painrelief/Pain Topics/JCAHO PAIN TOPICS article.pdf