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Table 1 Percent of participants who endorsed using the following factors to guide chronic pain treatment decisions

From: Examining influential factors in providers’ chronic pain treatment decisions: a comparison of physicians and medical students

Information used

Percent

Information would have used

Percent

Patients’ pain history

97.6 %

Previous treatment experiences

97.6 %

Patients’ pain description

95.3 %

Average pain rating over the past week

96.5 %

Mental health symptoms

91.8 %

Current pain rating

96.5 %

Patients’ vital signs

90.6 %

Use of illicit drugs

95.3 %

Your own personal experience

89.4 %

Pain description in own words

94.1 %

Your intuition

88.2 %

History of treatment adherence

92.9 %

Patients’ facial expression

84.7 %

Use of alcohol

90.6 %

Patients’ demographics

62.4 %

Employment/Disability status

84.7 %

  

Vocal expression

82.4 %

  

Social support

71.8 %

  1. Participants could select more than one factor; thus, the percentages do not sum to 100