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At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, we take pride in creating a number of pocket clinical resources for our clinicians. The Pink Book is updated every other year by the BWH/DFCI Pain Management Tables and Guidelines Committee - consisting of DFCI palliative care pharmacists, physicians, and nurse practitioners.

In addition to the Pink Book, the DFCI palliative care service also created pocket references for Nausea and Vomiting (Green Book), and a Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management (Blue Book) guide in collaboration with the Pediatric Advanced Care Team at Boston Children’s Hospital.

About The Organization: The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital Pain Management Tables and Guidelines (Pink Book) has been in use by DFCI/BWH clinicians since 1998. Widely used by the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care fellows and internal medicine house staff at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Pink Book contains useful opioid conversion tables, medication charts, and clinical pearls in the clinical management of pain. The website was created by Mark Zhang DO and Ben Kematick PharmD with support from the DFCI IS team. For questions regarding the pinkbook.dfci.org, please contact Mark Zhang DO (hzhang37@partners.org).

Keywords: Cancer, Palliative care, Hospice care, Healthcare guidelines, Clinical guidelines, Opioid conversion tables, Medication charts, Clinical management of pain, Hospice care