People in chronic pain are some of the most difficult patients to treat. They have complex circumstances that medicine can't always remedy. Pain can be amplified, by depression and anxiety, genetics and quality of life. Genetics can also play a role in how people experience pain.
Physicians are less prone to prescribe opioid medication to patients with long-term pain -- but they need more treatment options.
Clinicians and researchers at UW Medicine's Center for Pain Relief found that an in-depth questionnaire can help immensely. Their work to create a pain assessment adaptable to any primary care clinic was recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
[For more on this study by University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine, go to https://www.sciencedaily.com/r.../05/180504103804.htm]
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