... also the possibility for patient injury (includingundue reliance on a treatment lacking in efficacy), liability concerns related to the foregoing, and other factors including the effect on the institution’s ... pain management. 1. INTRODUCTIONClinical integration of CAM therapies into pain management also raises legal issuesfor institutions, which must negotiate between the competing demands of their ... meansproviding substandard care and thereby injuring the patient (4,12). Thus, it is not the useof CAM therapies that is problematic in itself but, rather, inducing the patient to relyon such therapies...