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Achieving Health Equity in Pain Management: What you need to know

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1.  Health equality is:
  1. creating tailored interventions
  2. evaluating differences and their impact on health
  3. treating every patient the same
  4. offering office hours late two evenings a week
2.  An example of health equity is:
  1. a provider only accepting commercial healthcare insurance
  2. giving everyone a fair chance to receive quality food when hospitalized
  3. treating every cancer patient with the same plan of care
  4. recognizing each person has different circumstances that impact health
3.  Which of the following is a common stigmatizing label applied to people experiencing pain?
  1. Drug-seekers
  2. Empowered patients
  3. Overcompliant
  4. Stoic communicators
4.  Biopsychosocial pain assessment is important because the process:
  1. allows the provider to use x-rays to create plan of care
  2. limits the ability of the patient to talk about their pain
  3. utilizes a comprehensive approach and uniqueness of the person experiencing pain
  4. only discusses past medications used to create a pain management plan
5.  A multi-visit patient (MVP) is described as:
  1. a person who uses primary care on a consistent basis
  2. someone with no chronic diseases
  3. having no hospitalizations in over a year
  4. experiencing medical, behavioral and social issues impacting their health
6.  Implicit bias impacts people who experience pain by:
  1. not making assumptions
  2. stereotyping the individual with pain
  3. providing care based on the patient’s story
  4. having the belief that the person experiencing pain deserves to be heard and for the pain to be properly addressed
7.  An example of a multimodal pain management plan is:
  1. only using opioids to manage pain
  2. using a combination of options to manage pain
  3. not taking past pain experiences into consideration
  4. a cookie cutter approach to managing pain
8.  People with a history of substance use disorders:
  1. always want opioids regardless of past challenges
  2. deserve to experience pain without relief
  3. respond best to an individualized pain management plan
  4. experience pain as a punishment for past behavior
9.  Which of the following is a common barrier to accessing multimodal pain management tools?
  1. no knowledge of available options
  2. overuse of emergency department services
  3. preference for surgical interventions
  4. reduced pain perception in older adults
10.  Strategies to address challenges to access multimodal pain management tools are:
  1. advocating for people experiencing pain to have access to available options
  2. staying uninformed about available options
  3. allowing stereotypes to interfere with caring for people who experience pain
  4. letting implicit bias prevent people experiencing pain from obtaining the care they need