A Collaborative Approach to Pain: Working with Your Patients to Reach an Informed Pain Management Plan

There are currently 50 million Americans living with chronic pain, which can result in restrictions in mobility and daily activities, dependence on opioids, anxiety and depression, and reduced quality of life (QoL) leading to it being one of the most common reasons for seeking medical care. To effectively and safely manage this patient population, individualized, multimodal, and multidisciplinary care is imperative, with risk assessment being critical to providing the best possible patient-centered outcomes while also mitigating unnecessary opioid exposure. Additionally, because low health literacy is often a contributing factor to opioid misuse, patient education on pain and the safe storage and disposal of medications is a necessary part of making patients partners in their treatment planning.

This CMEOCast podcast focuses on educating clinicians to evaluate their current workflow for opioid prescribing, including incorporating best practice strategies that will optimize safe and competent prescribing and therefore minimize the potential for abuse and diversion.

At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
-Upon evaluation of your current clinical workflow for opioid prescribing, incorporate two best practice strategies to optimize safe and competent prescribing and minimize potential for abuse and diversion.
-Educate patients about their pain to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.
-Develop strategies for engaging patients in treatment for OUD.

The following learning objectives pertain only to those requesting CNE or CPE credit:
-Explain two best practice strategies to optimize safe and competent prescribing and minimize potential for abuse and diversion.
-Educate patients about their pain to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.
-Develop strategies for engaging patients in treatment for OUD.