These technologies can provide interactive services that are personalized to the patient's condition and provide healthcare workers with patient education, pain assessment and medication teaching.

After getting a pain assessment, your doctor can prescribe pain medicine or other pain treatments to help you get pain relief.

Inadequate reimbursement for pain assessment and treatment.

Share documented pain assessment and management with other clinicians treating the patient.

Cognitively impaired patients may require simpler scales and more frequent pain assessment.

A non-verbal pain assessment should be conducted involving the parents, who will notice changes in the infant not obvious to the health care provider.

Most pain assessments are done in the form of a scale.

The standards require medical institutions to recognize and inform patients about their right to appropriate pain assessment and treatment.

The university also added basic courses on pain assessment and treatment into the core curriculum at its medical school.

The study identified eight steps for effective pain management, like formal pain assessments and regular consultations with doctors.