Treat the Patient, Not the Pain: Using a Multidimensional Assessment Tool to Facilitate Patient-Centered Chronic Pain Care.

The article discusses the need to implement a patient-centered approach to achieve the primary goals of chronic pain management. Topics include the lack of progress in chronic pain management, details of an online patient-reported outcome measurement tool called PainTracker developed by clinicians and pharmacists at the University of Washington, and the role of primary care physicians in the management of chronic pain.