Dolocheck is an interactive tool to help healthcare professionals evaluate patients' pain from all causes (for both cancer and non-cancer pain).

This interactive tool enables regular follow up of patient pain by the healthcare professional. Dolocheck has been developed with insight from pain management specialists and patients.

Dolocheck is designed to be used during your consultations with patients to help evaluate their pain. Dolocheck features some of the most widely used assessment tools for chronic pain and breakthrough pain, so you can quickly and easily select the most appropriate tool(s) to use with your patients.

Faces scale

A self-report measure of pain intensity using 10 faces to show varying degrees of pain

Breakthrough pain Assessment Tool (BAT)

A validated questionnaire for assessment of breakthrough pain, consisting of 14 questions

DN4 Questionnaire

A validated, clinician-administered screening tool for neuropathic pain

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

Measuring symptoms of anxiety and depression, this is used to assess psychological distress as a result of illness

Scales: VAS / NS / VRS

Visual analogue scale (VAS), numerical scale (NS) and verbal rating scale (VRS) to allow self-reporting of pain

Evaluating patients with breakthrough pain

3 questions to evaluate patients with breakthrough pain

Identification of breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP)

A summary of the ESMO guidelines for identification of BTcP

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