Treat the Patient, Not the Pain: Using a Multidimensional Assessment Tool to Facilitate Patient-Centered Chronic Pain Care

Optimizing telehealth pain care after COVID-19

“…25 As accepted with in-person pain management, patient assessment would include not only pain reports but broader psychosocial functions as well (eg, pain interference, function, mood, and sleep) to facilitate evaluations and inform treatment options. 14 , 32 , 59 M-Health technology (eg, web-based questionnaires completed at regular intervals and electronic diaries for more granular information) 74 can be incorporated into the telehealth clinical flow to seamlessly capture these outcomes over time. Wearable user interfaces (eg, accelerometers and mobile phones) 74 can also be used to track changes in physical activity and sleep.…”

Multidimensional Pain Assessment Tools for Ambulatory and Inpatient Nursing Practice

“…Further, the tool's platform may have potential to house clinical decision support tools to deliver behavioral interventions (Meadows et al, 2018). Although excluded from this review because the length of time to administer exceeded the established ten-minute threshold, Pain Tracker (Langford et al, 2018) is an online pain assessment tool that measures diverse domains of the pain experience and is completed prior to clinic visits. The use of mobile-based tools like Pain Monitor and Pain Tracker may allow clinicians to obtain comprehensive evaluations of pain in shorter amounts of time.…”

Pain Intensity as a Lagging Indicator of Patient Improvement: Longitudinal Relationships With Sleep, Psychiatric Distress, and Function in Multidisciplinary Care

“…The current study is a secondary analysis of a clinical dataset that has been used in a prior publication; 29 however, the focus of the current study was largely nonoverlapping with this prior publication, which focused on cross-sectional associations between PTSD symptomatology and pain outcomes. Data were drawn from Pain-Tracker, 28,43 an Internet-based platform for patientreported outcomes utilized at the University of Washington Center for Pain Relief, a tertiary care pain management center. PainTracker combines a collection of validated instruments commonly used in chronic pain (eg, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety-7 questionnaire, and Oswestry Disability Index) and other measures to assess pain intensity, psychological distress, pain-related difficulties in sleep initiation and maintenance, physical disability, along with other outcomes.…”