Chronic Pain Assessment Form

Managing chronic pain requires a detailed understanding of each patient's unique experience, and this Chronic Pain Assessment Form helps healthcare providers gather the clinical data they need before appointments. Designed for pain management clinics, primary care practices, physical therapy centers, and multidisciplinary pain teams, this template combines standardized pain measurement tools with essential screening questions to support evidence-based treatment decisions.

The form walks patients through a numeric pain rating scale to quantify current pain intensity, a pain interference questionnaire that reveals how pain affects daily activities like sleep, work, and relationships, and an opioid risk screening section that helps providers evaluate the appropriateness of various treatment modalities. By collecting this information digitally before the visit, clinicians can spend more face-to-face time discussing treatment options rather than gathering baseline data.

Paperform makes chronic pain assessment seamless with conditional logic that adapts questions based on patient responses, calculation fields that automatically score pain interference and risk assessments, and secure submission handling that meets healthcare data protection standards. Forms can be branded to match your practice, embedded in patient portals, or sent via email as part of pre-visit workflows.

For practices looking to streamline the entire care pathway, Stepper (stepper.io) can automate what happens after submission—routing high-risk assessments to clinical review, scheduling follow-up appointments based on pain severity scores, updating electronic health records, and triggering care coordinator outreach for patients who need additional support. This creates a complete pain management workflow that reduces administrative burden while improving clinical outcomes.

Whether you're a pain specialist, primary care physician, physical therapist, or nurse practitioner, this chronic pain assessment form helps you gather consistent, actionable clinical data that supports better conversations and more personalized treatment plans for every patient living with chronic pain.