electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration
The electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC) is an Australasian initiative that aims to improve the quality of care and outcomes for people who experience chronic pain.
ePPOC involves the collection of a standard set of information by specialist pain services. This information is used to guide treatment for individual patients, measure outcomes following treatment and provide a benchmarking system for the pain sector. The benchmarking system is designed to provide comparative data to each pain service, identify best practice protocols and clinical variation, and drive quality improvement through setting aspirational targets for patient outcomes. The information collected by pain services also provides a valuable resource for research into the management of pain in Australia and New Zealand.
ePPOC is an initiative of the Faculty of Pain Medicine and was established in 2013 with funding from the NSW Ministry of Health. Over 80 adult and paediatric pain management services currently participate in ePPOC.
Upcoming event - APS 2021
Save the date to attend the virtual 2021 Australian Pain Society 41st Annual Scientific Meeting on 19 - 20 April.
New journal article
Prioritising a sequence of short-duration groups as the standardized pathway for chronic noncancer pain at an Australian tertiary multidisciplinary pain service: preliminary outcomes
New definition of pain
Revised IASP Definition of Pain has been updated for the first time since 1979 (published 16 July 2020)
ePPOC News
Download the Key Decisions (pdf) from the Clinical and Management Advisory Committee (CMAC) meeting 30 November 2020.
Annual report
The ePPOC Annual Data Report presents data collected by participating pain management units during 2019
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