Title: Features and overview

Context:
This OT CPG is designed to assist healthcare providers in managing or co-managing patients on or being  considered for LOT. Specifically, this CPG is intended for adults, including Veterans as well as deployed and  non-deployed Active Duty Service Members, their beneficiaries, and retirees and their beneficiaries, with  chronic pain who are receiving care from the VA or DoD healthcare delivery systems. This CPG is not  intended for and does not provide recommendations for the management of pain with LOT in children or  adolescents, in patients with acute pain, or in patients receiving end-of-life care. As is so for any  pharmacotherapy, any decision about prescribing opioids, or alternative medications for pain, for pregnant  women should be made with due caution and cognizance of applicable U.S. Food and Drug Administration  (FDA) labeling. Any patient in the VA or DoD healthcare system should be offered access to the  interventions that are recommended in this guideline after taking into consideration the patient’s specific  circumstances.

Question: What does this CPG not do?

Answer: does not provide recommendations for the management of pain with LOT in children or  adolescents, in patients with acute pain, or in patients receiving end-of-life care