How do you utilize a patient's reported pain score in assessing their pain and guiding medication adjustment?
How do you approach situations where a patient, family member, or nurse suggests that a reported pain score in and of itself warrants a more intensive pain regimen than you otherwise determine to be indicated?
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Do you utilize a reported pain score to guide pain medication adjustment?
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Hospital Medicine · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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The devil is in the details. Most palliative care and pain physicians will no longer use a pain score in and of itself to guide treatment. The reason is simple: for some patients, a number of 7 out of 10 is completely acceptable. For others, not. Thus, in addition to a score, a clinician should unde...
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