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Obtaining a Pain History

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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.

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Abbreviations

ADL:

Activities of daily living

COMM:

Current Opioid Misuse Measure

DAST-10:

Drug Abuse Screening Test

DN:

Douleur Neuropathique

GED:

General educational development

IADL:

Instrumental activities of daily living

MMTP:

Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program

ORT:

Opioid Risk Tool

PMQ:

Pain Medication Questionnaire

SISAP:

Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse Potential

SOAPP:

Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain

VAS:

Visual analog scale

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  1. New York University—Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 240 East 38th Street, NYU Ambulatory Care Center, Room # 1776, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    Andrew Kamal Abdou B.S.

  2. New York University Langone Medical Center, Rehabilitation Medicine, 240 B 38th St., Office 1776, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    John Ross Rizzo M.D.

  3. New York University Langone Medical Center, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 812 Queens Boulevard, Apt. 7i, Woodside, NY, 11377, USA

    Jackson Liu M.D.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Interventional Pain Management, New York University , Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Kimberly A. Sackheim

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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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