Clinical Flowcharts

Refer to Pain Management Today’s flowcharts, listed under topic areas, to help guide the diagnosis, investigation and management of various conditions. Flowcharts should be read in context of the article in which they are published. Access the full text pdf of these articles by clicking on the flowchart, or the article link in red located above the flowchart.

An extensive collection of other flowcharts, covering many areas of clinical medicine as well as pain medicine, is available on Medicine Today's website

Drug and alcohol medicine
Diagnosing the patient with chronic headache
Geriatrics
An approach to stopping potentially inappropriate drugs
Immunology and allergy
Approach to the diagnosis of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Autoimmune diseases
Approach to the diagnosis of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Neurology
Classifying the certainty with which neuropathic pain can be diagnosed
A grading system for the likelihood of neuropathic pain
Diagnosing neuropathic pain
Oncology
Diagnosing patients with breakthrough cancer pain
Orthopaedics
Framework for assessment and targeted management of patients with low back pain (LBP)
Diagnosis and management of low back pain (LBP) according to current clinical guidelines
Pain medicine
Classifying the certainty with which neuropathic pain can be diagnosed
Approach to the diagnosis of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Framework for assessment and targeted management of patients with low back pain (LBP)
A grading system for the likelihood of neuropathic pain
Diagnosing patients with breakthrough cancer pain
An approach to stopping potentially inappropriate drugs
Canadian C-spine rule for determining the risk of cervical spine injury
Diagnosing the patient with chronic headache
Diagnosing neuropathic pain
Approach to the management of symptomatic osteoarthritis
Diagnosis and management of low back pain (LBP) according to current clinical guidelines
Acute pain
Framework for assessment and targeted management of patients with low back pain (LBP)
Canadian C-spine rule for determining the risk of cervical spine injury
Diagnosis and management of low back pain (LBP) according to current clinical guidelines
Addiction and dependence
Diagnosing the patient with chronic headache
Cancer pain
Diagnosing patients with breakthrough cancer pain
Chronic noncancer pain
Diagnosis and management of low back pain (LBP) according to current clinical guidelines
Headache and migraine
Diagnosing the patient with chronic headache
Neuropathic pain
Classifying the certainty with which neuropathic pain can be diagnosed
A grading system for the likelihood of neuropathic pain
Diagnosing neuropathic pain
Pain medication
Classifying the certainty with which neuropathic pain can be diagnosed
An approach to stopping potentially inappropriate drugs
Diagnosing neuropathic pain
Pharmacology and therapeutics
Classifying the certainty with which neuropathic pain can be diagnosed
Diagnosing patients with breakthrough cancer pain
An approach to stopping potentially inappropriate drugs
Diagnosing the patient with chronic headache
Rehabilitation medicine
Diagnosing neuropathic pain
Rheumatology
Approach to the diagnosis of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Approach to the management of symptomatic osteoarthritis
Diagnosis and management of low back pain (LBP) according to current clinical guidelines
Arthritis
Approach to the diagnosis of pain in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Approach to the management of symptomatic osteoarthritis