TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Aged, 80 and over
KW - Analgesics, Opioid/adverse effects/therapeutic use
KW - Chronic Pain/drug therapy
KW - Female
KW - Follow-Up Studies
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Opioid-Related Disorders/epidemiology
KW - Patient Compliance
KW - Reproducibility of Results
KW - Risk Assessment/methods
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires/standards
KW - United States/epidemiology
KW - Young Adult
AU - T. Jones
AU - S. Lookatch
AU - T. Moore
A1 - 
AB - Opioids remain a common method of treating chronic pain conditions despite some controversy. In an effort to address some of the risks of opioid medications, opioid risk assessment has become a standard of care when opioids are used to treat a chronic pain condition. Research to date has found that many currently available patient-completed written questionnaires are relatively poor at identifying which patients will engage in medication aberrant behavior in the future. Clinical interview techniques have been found to provide better prediction, but practitioners often prefer the convenience of patient-completed tools. In this study, a new brief patient-completed risk tool, the Brief Risk Questionnaire (BRQ), was created and compared with a structured clinical interview and two commonly used patient-completed risk assessment tools: the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) and Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain-Revised (SOAPP-R). The different risk assessment measures were administered to 454 patients at a pain clinic and their prediction of medication aberrant behavior at 6-month follow-up was compared. Results found that the BRQ was able to predict future medication aberrant behavior better than the other two patient-completed risk measures and almost as well overall as a structured clinical interview rating system. This study indicates that the BRQ could be a useful new tool for clinicians in conducting opioid risk assessment.
BT - Journal of opioid management
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use; Measures
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.5055/jom.2015.0266
IS - 2
JF - Journal of opioid management
N2 - Opioids remain a common method of treating chronic pain conditions despite some controversy. In an effort to address some of the risks of opioid medications, opioid risk assessment has become a standard of care when opioids are used to treat a chronic pain condition. Research to date has found that many currently available patient-completed written questionnaires are relatively poor at identifying which patients will engage in medication aberrant behavior in the future. Clinical interview techniques have been found to provide better prediction, but practitioners often prefer the convenience of patient-completed tools. In this study, a new brief patient-completed risk tool, the Brief Risk Questionnaire (BRQ), was created and compared with a structured clinical interview and two commonly used patient-completed risk assessment tools: the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) and Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain-Revised (SOAPP-R). The different risk assessment measures were administered to 454 patients at a pain clinic and their prediction of medication aberrant behavior at 6-month follow-up was compared. Results found that the BRQ was able to predict future medication aberrant behavior better than the other two patient-completed risk measures and almost as well overall as a structured clinical interview rating system. This study indicates that the BRQ could be a useful new tool for clinicians in conducting opioid risk assessment.
PP - United States
PY - 2015
SN - 1551-7489; 1551-7489
SP - 171
EP - 183
EP - 
T1 - Validation of a new risk assessment tool: the Brief Risk Questionnaire
T2 - Journal of opioid management
TI - Validation of a new risk assessment tool: the Brief Risk Questionnaire
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use; Measures
U2 - 25901482
U3 - 10.5055/jom.2015.0266
VL - 11
VO - 1551-7489; 1551-7489
Y1 - 2015
ER -