Andrew Schrepf, William Maixner, Roger Fillingim, Christin Veasley, Richard Ohrbach, Shad Smith, David A Williams
Ten chronic overlapping pain conditions are currently recognized by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium (e.g., irritable bowel syndrome, chronic migraine headache, and chronic low back pain). These conditions affect millions of Americans, however, assessing these conditions, their co-occurrence, and their relationship to treatment has proven challenging due to time-constraints and a lack of standardized measures. We present a Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions Screener that is logic-driven, efficient, and freely available in electronic format to non-profit entities...
August 24, 2023: Journal of Pain