Comprehensive Care
Used by patients to track various parameters over time, including pain severity, analgesic method, response to treatment, and pain-precipitating activities
Follow-Up Assessment
The Pain Assessment and Documentation Tool allows the clinician to regularly monitor the patient’s level of pain, physical activity and document the ongoing treatment in light of observed adverse events and any potential aberrant behaviors.
Consolidates several assessment parameters relevant to patients undergoing chronic opioid therapy into a single form that can be used to track patient progress
Patient- and physician-administered report used to track the progress of a patient using opioids for treatment of their pain condition
Physician’s form used to chart the functional progress of a patient using opioids for their pain condition
Pain Assessment
The Pain Quality Assessment Scale helps to measure the type of pain sensation being experienced.
Easy to use, one-dimensional pain scale that allows patients to rank the severity of their pain along a line from “no pain” to “worst pain imaginable”
Easy to use, one-dimensional pain scale that allows patients to rank pain intensity from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain).
One-dimensional pain scale that uses written descriptors to rank pain intensity from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst possible pain)
Validated for self-assessment of pain experienced by children. One-dimensional scales that use a range of facial expressions representing different pain severities
Suitable for patients of all ages (except the very young), cultures, and for those who are cognitively impaired.
The multidimensional BPI is available as the BPI short form, which is used for clinical trials and foreign-language translations to characterize several aspects of a patient’s pain experience.
Position Statement with Clinical Practice Recommendations-American Society for Pain Management Nursing
Includes a series of adjectives to describe the characteristics and intensity of pain to give a better characterize a patient’s pain experience
Brief, clinically useful approach to assessing pain in older adults with cognitive impairment
36 questions to measure functional health and well-being from the patient's point of view
21-item multiple choice assessment format which purports to measure presence and degree of depression in adolescents and adults as is sometimes observed in people who experience a variety of pain conditions
Patient Selection and Opioid Treatment Agreements
Clinician-rated scale designed to predict the analgesic efficacy of, and patient compliance to long-term opioid treatment in the primary care setting
Formal agreements established between a patient and physician outlining the responsibilities of the patient and physician during a course of opioid therapy.
Risk Stratification
The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) was developed in 1982 and is still an excellent screening tool. It is a 28-item self-report scale that consists of items that parallel those of the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST). The DAST has “exhibited valid psychometric properties” and has been found to be “a sensitive screening instrument for the abuse of drugs other than alcohol.
A five-question clinical interview or patient questionnaire to help stratify patients based on the risk for opioid-related misuse and abuse.
Convenient list of aberrant drug-related behaviors more or less predictive of an addiction disorder
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