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Doctor's Tool Kit
Below are links to several helpful tools for you and your patients. Maybe you need to locate the latest guidelines, patient pain scales and self-analysis tools, patient guides, or even samples of treatment agreements. Pain.com has scoured the web to bring you those tools in one simple repository. Click a link to download that component or navigate to the site to where the information can readily be accessed.
Please bookmark the page as your resource for the tools every doctor needs at their disposal.
Federation of State Medical Boards Guidelines
- Model Policy Guidelines for Opioid Addiction Treatment in the Medical Office
- Model Guidelines for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain
Test your skills diagnosing a patients condition based solely on an image.
Chronic Pain
- Checklist of Non-Verbal Pain Indicators (CNVI)
- Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) Instructions
- Opioid Treatment Guidelines
SOAPP Tools (includes scoring instructions)
- SOAPP-R (24 Questions with monitoring recommendations)
- SOAPP version 1.0 (24 Questions)
- SOAPP version 1.0 (14 Questions)
- SOAPP version 1.0 (5 Questions)
COMM Tools (includes scoring instructions)
Pain Activity Tracking Log
Treatment Recommendations
- SOAPP version 1.0 Monitoring Recommendations
- Exit Strategy Guide for Discontinuation of Opioid Therapy
- Medication Flow Chart
- Informed Consent (video)
- Informed Consent for Using Opioids to Treat Pain
- Opioid Informed Consent Post-test
- Patient Reassessment Opioid Analgesic4-A’s+ Chart Note
Patient Education
- Using a Pain Rating Scale
- Taking Oral Opioid Analgesics
- Home Care of the Hospice Patient (pdf)
- Caregiver Cornerstone Brochure (pdf)
- Resource Guide for People with Pain (pdf)
American Chronic Pain Association Patient Tools
- Pharmacist CARE Program (pdf)
- Post Visit Follow-up Guide (pdf)
- Quality of LIfe Scale Graphic (pdf)
- Quality of LIfe Scale Text (pdf)
- Pain Log (pdf)
- Fibro Log (pdf)
- Fibro Symptoms Checklist (interactive activity)
- Nerve Man (interactive activity)
Pain Scales
- Brief Pain Inventory (pdf)
- CRIES Pain Scale (pdf)
- Children's Hospital Eastern Ontario Pain Scale (CHEOPS) (pdf)
- FLACC-A Pain Measurement Observational Scale for use in very young children (pdf)
- Checklist for Non-verbal Pain Indicators (CNPI) (pdf)
- Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) (pdf)
- Verbal Descriptor Scale (pdf)
- Verbal Numeric Scale (pdf)
- Pain AD Scale (pdf)
- Wong-Baker Faces Scale (pdf)
- The Faces Pain Scale (pdf)
- Functional Pain Scale (pdf)
- Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) (pdf)
- Visual Analog Scale (VAS) (pdf)
- Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) (pdf)
- Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) (pdf)
- Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale Short Form (pdf)
- Pain Severity Assessment Tool
- Pain Scale Comparison
- Iowa Pain Thermometer Scale
- 18 Multi-language Pain Assessment Scales
- 0–10 Numeric Pain Rating Scale
- Where is Your Pain?
Assessments
- Brief Assessment Scale for Caregivers of the Medically Ill (pdf)
- FAST - Functional Assessment Staging of Alzheimer's Disease (pdf)
- Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (pdf)
- Modified Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (pdf)
- Patient Comfort Assessment Guide (pdf)
Substance Abuse
- Substance Abuse in Brief Fact Sheet (pdf)
- Drug Abuse Screening Test
- Substance Use History and Physical Examination
- Adolescent Interview Guidelines
- Drug Effects Summary Chart
- Signs of Possible Adolescent Substance Use Problems
- DSM-IV Criteria for Substance Use Disorders
Drugs
Research
- SOAPP Short Form vs. Long Form: Tradeoff in Accuracy
- Poster Abstract - SOAPP-R Validation
- Poster Abstract - SOAPP Validation
- Implementation of SOAPP® into a Large Integrated Health Care System - Abstract
- Implementation of SOAPP® into a Large Integrated Health Care System - Poster Presentation
- Guide for the Prevention and Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia (PHN)
Opioid Contracts
- Patient Medication Management Agreement
- Medication Management Agreement for Patients with Low Literacy
- Medication Use Agreement
Opioid Risk Tools (ORT)