M. Kit Delgado, assistant professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology at Penn’s Perleman School of Medicine, and Penn Nursing’s Rosemary Polomano, associate dean for practice, professor of pain practice, have been appointed members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (the Academies’) Committee on Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines to Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain.

This committee will develop a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain indications, recommend indications for which new evidence-based guidelines should be developed and recommend a future research agenda to inform and enable specialty organizations to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids to treat acute pain indications.

The committee will produce recommendations for how to generate easily accessible, evidence-based, trustworthy clinical practice guidelines for effectively managing acute pain with opioid drugs for specific medical procedures and conditions that FDA could use as a reference in its publicly available materials.