There are many factors involved in the management of pain. These include evaluating the risks of benefits of opioid therapy, assessing the different types of pain, development of a safe and effective treatment plan, educating patients and caregivers, and understanding opioid use disorder. These activities summarize the key steps in safely and effectively assessing and treating patients with pain.

• REAL CO*RE Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits  CME/ABIM MOC/CE
  How knowledgeable are you on the risks and benefits associated with managing patients with pain?
  October 30, 2019
• Pain Management and Opioids: Balancing Risks and Benefits-Updated 2019-20  CME/ABIM MOC/CE
  Practical guidance on improving the management of patients with pain.
  September 25, 2019

• Opioid Risk Tool (ORT-OUD)
  A 9-question measure to classify a patient as high or low risk for misusing/abusing opioids prescribed for pain. A new modification of the original Opioid Risk Tool (ORT)
• The Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP® 5-items, 14-items, 24-items, and SOAPP-R® 24-items)
  This screener/assessment is available to registered users for download (registration is free of charge). The SOAPP® tools are brief paper-and-pencil tools to facilitate assessment and planning for patients with chronic pain being considered for long-term opioid treatment.
• Urine Drug Testing: Current Recommendations and Best Practices
  This article describes urine drug testing as a routine part of an overall best practice program for prescribing chronic opioid therapy.
• State Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Questions and Answers
  These questions and answers provide information about Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs): who oversees them, what are their benefits, which states currently have or plan to have a PDMP, who are the state PDMP contacts, where to find state laws pertaining to PDMPs, and who can access the PDMP information collected.
• The Brief Pain Inventory
  See appendix C for a 2-item version of the Graded Chronic Pain Scale intended for brief and simple assessment of pain severity in primary care settings.