Disease Management Guideline Practice Guidelines: Management of Pain in Sickle Cell Disease None Am Fam Physician. 2000 Mar 1;61(5):1544-1550. SCDO Probably not necessary to include in other ontologies. A comprehensive guideline to aid physicians and other health care professionals in the management of patients with acute and chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease (SCD). The guideline covers the following information: an overview of the disease, the types and characteristics of pain associated with the disease, recommendations for pain assessment, methods for treatment of pain and a discussion of pain in the various developmental stages. It also includes discussions of pain assessment instruments.