NICA OPIOID RISK ASSESSMENT
The NICA OPIOID RISK ASSESSMENT (NORA) protocol combines the NICA PSYCHOBIOSOCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT: DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW and the NICA OPIOID USE DISORDERS RISK ASSESSMENT: DSM-5-BASED CRITERIA and is a structured, face-to-face, clinical interview specifically designed to be administered by those duly-licensed healthcare professionals who are legally authorized (with the requisite training, credentialing, experience and clinical judgement), to adequately render a DSM-5-based (or subsequent DSM-based) diagnosis of any of the Opioid-Related Disorders.
The protocol is to be administered in its entirety and, when completed, represents a significant psychobiosocial foundation upon which an assessment of risk and an assessment of DSM-5-based (or subsequent DSM-based) opioid-related diagnosis may be made.
Additionally, the entire protocol is the report, in toto, of the NICA OPIOID RISK ASSESSMENT (NORA) and serves as an organic document to facilitate meaningful clinical inquiry and continuing dialogue with the Patient about the multiple life-domain stressors associated with their potential or actual opioid use, abuse, dependency, tolerance, withdrawal, and/or additional healthcare consideration of salient risk factors which may positively or negatively impact consideration of opioid therapy.
The NORA concludes with a brief NORA ASSESSOR SUMMARY REPORT which has been, especially, structured to enable the Assessor to rapidly summarize both the NICA PSYCHOBIOSOCIAL RISK ASSESSMENT: DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW, as well as, the NICA OPIOID USE DISORDERS RISK ASSESSMENT: DSM-5-BASED CRITERIA sections of the NORA and to provide a cumulative RISK FACTOR SEVERITY QUARTILE rating. The two (2) page NORA Assessor Summary Report may be utilized as an abbreviated health care, stand-alone, record if there is need to protect the "raw data" health information of the patient from requestors of the NORA.
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