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Pain medicine

About: Pain medicine is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10176 publications have been published within this topic receiving 113515 citations.


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TL;DR: The American Pain Society, with input from the American Society of Anesthesiologists, developed a clinical practice guideline to promote evidence-based, effective, and safer postoperative pain management in children and adults.

1,806 citations

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01 Jan 2019-Pain
TL;DR: In conditions such as fibromyalgia or nonspecific low-back pain, chronic pain may be conceived as a disease in its own right; in this proposal, this subgroup is called “chronic primary pain,” and in 6 other subgroups, pain is secondary to an underlying disease.
Abstract: Chronic pain is a major source of suffering. It interferes with daily functioning and often is accompanied by distress. Yet, in the International Classification of Diseases, chronic pain diagnoses are not represented systematically. The lack of appropriate codes renders accurate epidemiological investigations difficult and impedes health policy decisions regarding chronic pain such as adequate financing of access to multimodal pain management. In cooperation with the WHO, an IASP Working Group has developed a classification system that is applicable in a wide range of contexts, including pain medicine, primary care, and low-resource environments. Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists or recurs for more than 3 months. In chronic pain syndromes, pain can be the sole or a leading complaint and requires special treatment and care. In conditions such as fibromyalgia or nonspecific low-back pain, chronic pain may be conceived as a disease in its own right; in our proposal, we call this subgroup "chronic primary pain." In 6 other subgroups, pain is secondary to an underlying disease: chronic cancer-related pain, chronic neuropathic pain, chronic secondary visceral pain, chronic posttraumatic and postsurgical pain, chronic secondary headache and orofacial pain, and chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain. These conditions are summarized as "chronic secondary pain" where pain may at least initially be conceived as a symptom. Implementation of these codes in the upcoming 11th edition of International Classification of Diseases will lead to improved classification and diagnostic coding, thereby advancing the recognition of chronic pain as a health condition in its own right.

1,311 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide guidelines for the development and translation of questionnaires for application in medical fields, with a special emphasis on perioperative and pain medicine, and provide a framework to guide researchers through the various stages of questionnaire development.
Abstract: The task of developing a new questionnaire or translating an existing questionnaire into a different language might be overwhelming. The greatest challenge perhaps is to come up with a questionnaire that is psychometrically sound, and is efficient and effective for use in research and clinical settings. This article provides guidelines for the development and translation of questionnaires for application in medical fields, with a special emphasis on perioperative and pain medicine. We provide a framework to guide researchers through the various stages of questionnaire development and translation. To ensure that the questionnaires are psychometrically sound, we present a number of statistical methods to assess the reliability and validity of the questionnaires.

728 citations

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23 Feb 2012-Neuron
TL;DR: The pain phenotype can serve as a window on underlying pathophysiological neural mechanisms and as a guide for developing personalized pain medicine.

680 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023447
2022846
2021622
2020602
2019585
2018564