Pain-Track: a time-series approach for the description and analysis of the burden of pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To present the Pain-Track, a novel framework for the description and analysis of the pain experience based on its temporal evolution, around which intensity and other attributes of pain (texture, anatomy), interventions and clinical symptoms can be registered. This time-series approach can provide valuable insight on the expected evolution of the pain typically associated with different medical conditions and on time-varying (risk) factors associated with the temporal dynamics of pain.

Results

We illustrate the use of the framework to explore hypotheses on the temporal profile of the pain associated with an acute injury (bone fracture), and the magnitude of the pain burden it represents. We also show that, by focusing on the critical dimensions of the pain experien

SUBMITTER: Alonso WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8180079 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature