Core patient-reported outcome measures for chronic pain patients treated with spinal cord stimulation or dorsal root ganglia stimulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neurostimulation is a highly effective therapy for the treatment of chronic Intractable pain, however, due to the complexity of pain, measuring a subject's long-term response to the therapy remains difficult. Frequent measurement of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to reflect multiple aspects of subjects' pain is a crucial step in determining therapy outcomes. However, collecting full-length PROs is burdensome for both patients and clinicians. The objective of this work is to identify the reduced set of questions from multiple validated PROs that can accurately characterize chronic pain patients' responses to neurostimulation therapies.

Methods

Validated PROs were used to capture pain, physical function and disability, as well as psychometric, satisfaction, and gl

SUBMITTER: Huygen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10357671 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature