Attaining expert consensus on diagnostic expectations of primary chronic pain diagnoses for patients referred to interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain programs: A delphi study with pediatric chronic pain physicians and advanced practice nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Pediatric primary chronic pain disorders come with diagnostic uncertainty, which may obscure diagnostic expectations for referring providers and the decision to accept or re-direct patients into interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain programs based on diagnostic completeness. We aimed to attain expert consensus on diagnostic expectations for patients who are referred to interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain programs with six common primary chronic pain diagnoses.

Method

We conducted a modified Delphi study with pediatric chronic pain physicians, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists to determine degree of importance on significant clinical indicators and diagnostic items relevant to each of the six primary chronic pain diagnoses. Items were identi

SUBMITTER: Greenough M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632850 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature