PainApp can help you understand your patients with chronic pain. After your patients have gone through the tool, they will have a better understanding of their pain, how to manage it, and how to make the most of their next appointment. PainApp will generate a brief summary of their treatment goals, preferences for communications, and a concise summary of their chronic pain and previous treatments, including which treatments were tried, their effectiveness, and which treatments they are willing to try. Your patients can choose to share this summary with you at or before their next appointment.
Links you may find helpful:
- 10 ways to improve communication about pain
- New bill targets the opioid crisis
- Options for tapering opioids
- Assess risk for addiction
- Maine’s Prescription Monitoring Program: PMP
- CDC opioid app (with Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME) calculator)
- Maine’s new Opioid prescribing limits
- Explain Maine’s new Opioid Law
- Assess suicide risk
- Help patients manage costs
- Communicate more effectively with patients with chronic pain
- Tapering opioids: understanding the patient perspective: