Open AccessInterventional Spine and Pain Procedure Credentialing: Guidelines from the American Society of Pain & Neuroscience
Author(s) -
Ramaidu,
Rahul Chaturvedi,
Alyson M. Engle,
Pankaj Mehta,
Brian W. Su,
Krishnan Chakravarthy,
Kasra Amirdelfan,
Jeffrey S. Henn,
Dawood Sayed,
Jay S. Grider,
Timothy R. Deer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pain research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.888
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 1178-7090
DOI - 10.2147/jpr.s309705
Subject(s) - credentialing , credential , medicine , health care , licensure , pain management , process (computing) , medical education , physical therapy , law , computer science , operating system , political science
The discipline of interventional pain management has changed significantly over the past decade with an expected greater evolution in the next decade. Not only have the number of procedures increased, some of the procedures that were created for spine surgeons are becoming more facile in the hands of the interventional pain physician. Such change has outpaced academic institutions, societies, and boards. When a pain physician is in the credentialing process for novel procedure privileges, it can leave the healthcare system in a challenging situation with little to base their decision upon.