Abstract
Taking a pain health history consists of the following sections: Source, chief complaint, history of present illness, past medical history, past surgical history, functional evaluation, social history, allergies, medications, and review of systems. The aforementioned healthy history is confirmed by contacting family members or caregiver, primary care physician or previous opiate-prescribing provider, and pharmacies. Examples of pain scales include the Visual Analog Scale, Numerical Rating Scale, Verbal Descriptor Scale, and the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale. Multidimensional pain scales, neuropathic pain scales, and risk assessments for aberrant behaviors, misuse, dependence, abuse, and addiction are also listed.
Keywords
- History
- Characterizing pain
- Pain scales
- Visual analog scale
- Verbal descriptor scale
- Wong-Baker FACES pain rating scale
- Brief pain inventory
- McGill pain questionnaire
- Neuropathic pain scale
- Leeds assessment of neuropathic symptoms and signs
- DN-4
- Screener and opioid assessment for patients with pain
- Opioid risk tool
- Pain medication questionnaire
- Current opioid misuse measure
- Drug abuse screening test
- Screening instrument for substance abuse potential
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- ADL:
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Activities of daily living
- COMM:
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Current Opioid Misuse Measure
- DAST-10:
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Drug Abuse Screening Test
- DN:
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Douleur Neuropathique
- GED:
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General educational development
- IADL:
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Instrumental activities of daily living
- MMTP:
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Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program
- ORT:
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Opioid Risk Tool
- PMQ:
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Pain Medication Questionnaire
- SISAP:
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Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse Potential
- SOAPP:
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Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain
- VAS:
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Visual analog scale
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Abdou, A.K., Rizzo, J.R., Liu, J. (2015). Obtaining a Pain History. In: Sackheim, K. (eds) Pain Management and Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2462-2_2
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