Pain, Intractable - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Development and preliminary testing of a computerized adaptive assessment of chronic pain.

30 Aug 2009 The aim of this article is to report the development and preliminary testing of a prototype computerized adaptive test of chronic pain (CHRONIC PAIN-CAT) conducted in 2 stages: (1) evaluation of various item selection and stopping rules through real ... Read more...

["You have nothing wrong. It is all in your head." Chronic pain: how to contribute to the development of pain perception?]

15 Jun 2009 This article presents some tools, elements of reflections and psycho-educational elements which allow the general practitioner to have a register varied by some means and attitudes and can be adopted to face the multiple challenges which ... Read more...

Structured approaches to pain management in the ICU.

30 May 2009 Pain in patients who are critically ill remains undertreated despite decades of research, guideline development and distribution, and intense educational efforts. By nature of their complex medical conditions, these patients present unique ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pain, Intractable - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Development and preliminary testing of a computerized adaptive assessment of chronic pain. 30 Aug 2009
• ["You have nothing wrong. It is all in your head." Chronic pain: how to contribute to the development of pain perception?] 15 Jun 2009
• Structured approaches to pain management in the ICU. 30 May 2009
• Physical self-efficacy and alexithymia in women with chronic intractable back pain. 26 Feb 2009
• [Quality of life measurement important in long-term pain] 30 Dec 2008
• Occipital nerve stimulation for refractory occipital pain after occipitocervical fusion: expanding indications. 23 Nov 2008
• Maldynia: chronic pain as illness, and the need for complementarity in pain care. 4 Oct 2008
• Progressive lymphadenopathy and intractable pain in an immunocompetent African-American adult with cat-scratch disease. 29 Sep 2008
• Clinical assessment of prognostic factors for long-term pain and handicap after whiplash injury: a 1-year prospective study. 16 Sep 2008
• Compliance with momentary pain measurement using electronic diaries: a systematic review. 5 Jul 2008
• High-dose propofol drip for palliative sedation: a case report. 9 Jun 2008
• The aged care pain chart: an innovative approach to assessing, managing and documenting pain in older people. 30 May 2008
• Refractory headache: classification and nomenclature. 30 May 2008
• Refractory migraine: introductory editorial. 30 May 2008
• Refractory headache: historical perspective, need, and purposes for an operational definition. 7 May 2008
• Prolonged epidural analgesia for intractable lumbo-sacral pain in pregnancy. 30 Mar 2008
• [Cancer pain] 30 Mar 2008
• [H magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation of the anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal cortex in chronic pain patients] 30 Jan 2008
• Clinical findings in men with chronic pain after falanga torture. 30 Jan 2008
• Chronic bilateral thigh and knee discomfort in an 18-year-old man. 8 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Pain, Intractable'

Definition: Persistent pain that is refractory to some or all forms of treatment.

Descriptor UI: D010148

Alternative terms: Pain, Intractable; Intractable Pain; Intractable Pains; Pains, Intractable; Refractory Pain; Pain, Refractory; Pains, Refractory; Refractory Pains;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.617.788; C23.888.592.612.776; C23.888.646.515;

History Note: 1974

Technical Notes: IM; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE but chronic pain = PAIN (IM) + CHRONIC DISEASE (NIM)