Do Patients Accurately Recall Pain Levels Following Sacroiliac Joint Steroid Injection? A Cohort Study of Recall Bias in Patient-reported Outcomes

CONCLUSIONS: Patients had favorable pain level responses to their SIJ steroid injection for both actual and recall surveys. Although patients demonstrated poor recall of absolute pain scores at preinjection, 4-hour postinjection, and 24-hour postinjection, they demonstrated robust recall of their net pain score improvement at both 4- and 24-hours postinjection. These findings suggest that there is utility in using patient recollection to describe the magnitude of pain relief following treatment for sacroiliac joint dysfunction.PMID:38506684

Source: Pain Physician - March 20, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Davin C Gong Aditya Muralidharan Bilal B Butt Ronald Wasserman Joshua D Piche Rakesh D Patel Ilyas Aleem Source Type: research