(106) Pain Intensity as a Lagging Indicator of Patient Improvement: Longitudinal Relationships with Sleep, Mood, and Function in Multidisciplinary Care

Patients and many providers assume that chronic pain intensity must be reduced before improvements in other patient reported outcomes such as mood and function are possible. However, there has been relatively little empirical inquiry into the temporal ordering of improvements in chronic pain treatment. It is unclear whether improvements in other domains are likely to emerge earlier in multidisciplinary care or their consequent implications for pain relief. The current study sought to examine these questions in patients presenting for chronic pain specialty care using data from PainTracker, a patient-reported outcome-tracking tool at the University of Washington Center for Pain Relief.

Source: The Journal of Pain - March 21, 2019 Category: Materials Science Authors: J. Sturgeon, D. Langford, D. Tauben, M. Sullivan Source Type: research