Question

How do you evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention deemed to address pain management?

Answer 1

Ans) Proper evaluation of pain treatment requires, like any other medical condition, that all patients have a treatment entry diagnosis that is defined, standard, and objectively determined.

- Outcomes need to be clear and easily assessed among all patients in treatment. Presented here is an paradigm to identify pain patients who have a diagnosis of severe, chronic pain, and whose treatment is assessed by various objective measures to monitor clinical progress. Severe chronic pain patients, as defined and identified here, may have to be in opioid treatment for many years—if not a lifetime.

Evaluation of effectiveness of intervention to address the pain:

- Patient will self verbalize decrease pain.

- Will engage in activities.

- will be able to use effective pain relief strategy.