Desire to receive more pain treatment – a relevant patient-reported outcome measure to assess quality of post-operative pain management? Results from 79,996 patients enrolled in the pain registry QUIPS from 2016 to 2019.

Pain after surgery is still a major issue in healthcare.3, 16 Although there are efforts to objectify it.7 pain is still routinely assessed by asking patients to rate their subjective pain intensity on various scales, e.g., the numeric rating scale, the visual analog scale, different faces pain scales, and others.20 Often, pain treatment is then based on or at least influenced by these ratings.

Source: The Journal of Pain - January 19, 2021 Category: Materials Science Authors: Marcus Komann, Philipp Baumbach, Ulrike M. Stamer, Claudia Weinmann, Christin Arnold, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Winfried Mei ßner Source Type: research